THE CERTAMEN QUESTIONS DATABASE http://www.speakeasy.net/~bwduncan THESE QUESTIONS COURTESY OF: BRADFORD W. DUNCAN, STANFORD UNIVERSITY EVENT: N/A LOCATION: N/A SECTION: SUBJECT AREA DIFFICULTY RATING: VARIES DATE: JULY 2001 # OF QUESTIONS: 66 NOTES: M. CARY & H.H. SCULLARD, HISTORY OF ROME DOWN TO THE REIGN OF CONSTANTINE, MACMILLAN PRESS LTD, 1975. THESE QUESTIONS COME FROM CHAPTER 20 (PAGES 203-211, endnotes). WHILE SOME MATERIAL IN THE QUESTIONS WAS INCORPORATED FROM OTHER SOURCES, THE ANSWERS ARE IN CARY & SCULLARD. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. In what year did Tiberius Gracchus serve as tribune of the plebs? 133 BC (p. 203) 2. In 151 and again in 138, whom did the tribunes temporarily imprison for refusing to allow exemptions from conscription? the CONSULS (p. 203) 3. In 139 BC, who introduced a bill to substitute a ballot at electoral assemblies of the Comitia rather than voting by open declaration? the tribune Aulus GABINIUS (p. 203) 4. In 137 BC, which tribune extended the use of ballots to judicial assemblies of the people? Lucius CASSIUS LONGINUS Ravilla (p. 203) 5. Who were the parents of the Gracchi brothers? Tiberius SEMPRONIUS GRACCHUS the ELDER and CORNELIA II (p. 572) 6. Who was the maternal grandfather of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus? Publius Cornelius SCIPIO AFRICANUS (p. 203) 7. As an officer in the Third Punic War, what distinction did Tiberius Gracchus have? he was the FIRST MAN OVER THE WALLS OF CARTHAGE (p. 203) 8. At Numantia, Tiberius Gracchus conducted negotiations by which whose army was saved from destruction? Hostilius MANCINUS' (p. 203) 9. Who was the Greek tutor of Tiberius Gracchus? DIOPHANES (p. 203) 10. Who was the Stoic philosopher and teacher who had particular influence on Tiberius Gracchus? BLOSSIUS of Cumae (p. 203) 11. Who were the 2 leaders of the Sicilian Slave Rebellion that occurred in 135 BC? a Syrian slave named EUNUS (accept King ANTIOCHUS) (p. 204) and a Cilician slave named CLEON 12. In 132 BC, who finally stamped out the Sicilian Slave Rebellion that began 3 years earlier? Publius RUPILIUS (p. 610) 13. About a decade before the tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus, who proposed a bill that was probably similar to the agrarian reform of 133 BC? Gaius LAELIUS (p. 204) see n1. 14. Name 3 prominent members of the Senate who supported Tiberius Gracchus' agrarian reforms. his father-in-law Appius CLAUDIUS PULCHER, (p. 204) see n2. Publius Licinius CRASSUS Dives Mucianus, and the famous jurist Publius Mucius SCAEVOLA 15. What was the term for the senior member of the roll of the Senate and the first to be counsulted at a rogatio or bill? PRINCEPS SENATUS (p. 204) 16. Who passed a land law in 232 BC without prior consultation of the Senate? Gaius FLAMINIUS (p. 204) 17. How did the Senate stop Tiberius Gracchus' initial attempt to pass his agrarian law? HAD another TRIBUNE (M. Octavius) VETO IT (p. 205) 18. Who was the tribune who vetoed Tiberius Gracchus' land bill and was subsequently removed from office? Marcus OCTAVIUS (p. 205) 19. Without consulting the Senate, who summoned the Comitia Centuriata in 167 in order to obtain a declaration of war against the Rhodians? Manius Iuventius THALNA (p. 610) 20. In what wholly unprecedented way did Tiberius Gracchus deal with his fellow tribune Marcus Octavius? he HAD HIM REMOVED FROM OFFICE (p. 205) 21. How many members sat on the land commission established by the Gracchan land law of 133 BC? THREE (p. 205) 22. In addition to Tiberius Gracchus, who were the original triumviri agris iudicandis adsignandis or members of the land commission? his younger brother GAIUS GRACCHUS and (p. 205, 610) his father-in-law Appius CLAUDIUS PULCHER 23. What action by Tiberius Gracchus precipitated a brawl in the Senate that led to his lynching? TIBERIUS SOUGHT RE-ELECTION to the tribunate (p. 205) see n3. 24. What statute expressly forbade election to the same magistracy for 2 successive years? Lex VILLA ANNALIS (p. 205) 25. Who led the mob of senators and their clientes who clubbed Tiberius Gracchus and some 300 of his supporters to death? Publius Cornelius SCIPIO NASICA Serapio (p. 205) see n4. 26. Who was the consul of 132 BC who held a special court of inquest at which supporters of Tiberius Gracchus who had at most had talked of violence were sentenced to death? Publius POPILLIUS Laenas (p. 206) 27. After the death of Tiberius Gracchus, where was Scipio Nasica exiled? the newly-created province of ASIA (accept PERGAMUM) (p. 206) see n5. 28. Whom did the tribune Gaius Atinius attempt to hurl from the Tarpeian Rock in 131 BC? the censor Quintus Caecilius METELLUS MACEDONICUS (p. 206) see n6 29. Who were the consuls when Tiberius Gracchus was tribune? Publius Mucius SCAEVOLA and Lucius Calpurnius PISO Frugi (p. 206, 610) 30. Who filled the position on the land commission left vacant by the death of Tiberius Gracchus? Publius Licinius CRASSUS Dives Mucianus (p. 206) 31. Who introduced a bill that established the use of secret ballots at legislative assemblies of the people in 131 BC? the tribune Gaius PAPIRIUS Carbo (p. 206) see n7. 32. Who induced the Senate to transfer the settlement of land disputes from the Gracchan triumvirate to one of the consuls in 129 BC? Publius Cornelius SCIPIO AEMILIANUS (p. 206) 33. Which tribune passed a law to prevent non-citizens from settling in Rome and to expel any who had done so? Marcus Iunius PENNUS (p. 206) 34. Which consul of 125 BC proposed that all allies who wished Roman citizenship should receive it and the rest should be given the right to appeal to Roman magistrates? Marcus Fulvius FLACCUS (p. 206) 35. How did the Senate force Flaccus to abandon Italian enfranchisement? SENT HIM TO GAUL to defend Massilia against the Salluvii (p. 206) 36. Seeking enfranchisement, which Latin colony revolted from Rome in 124 BC and consequently was beseiged and destroyed? FREGELLAE (p. 206) 37. What colony was established for the Fregellans after their revolt? FABRATERIA (p. 207) 38. Who served as quaestor in Sardinia in 126 BC, was an original member of the Gracchan land commission, and served as tribune in both 123 and 122 BC? GAIUS Sempronius GRACCHUS (p. 207) 39. Which tribune carried a bill to establish a Roman colony on the former site of Carthage? RUBRIUS (p. 207) 40. Name the transmarine settlement that was to be established by the lex Rubria. JUNONIA (p. 207) 41. Laws enacted by Gaius Gracchus did all of the following except which: a) prohibited military conscription before the age of 17, b) provided clothing for military troops, c) regulated the grain supply in Rome, d) provided for construction of a new Roman aqueduct, or e) established colonies at Tarentum and elsewhere. D (p. 207) 42. What political body impeached Popillius and drove him into exile? COMITIA TRIBUTA (Tribal Assembly) (p. 208) 43. What law of 123 or 122 BC abolished senatorial juries altogether? lex ACILIA (p. 208) 44. Into whose hands did the lex Acilia transfer the quaestio de (rebus) repetundis? EQUITES (KNIGHTS) (p. 208) 45. How did Gaius Gracchus prevent the Senate from taking personal likes and dislikes into account in the selection of consular provinces? passed a law that REQUIRED consular PROVINCES BE SELECTED (p. 208) PRIOR TO THE ELECTION OF CONSULS who would serve there 46. Gaius Gracchus provided that the rights of tax-gathering in what province be put up for auction in Rome? ASIA (p. 208) 47. Which tribune, in collusion with the Senate, sought to oppose Gaius Gracchus' act for the enfranchisement of Italy? Marcus LIVIUS DRUSUS (p. 209) 48. Which tribune proposed the formal annulment of the lex Rubria? Marcus MINUCIUS RUFUS (p. 209) 49. Whose servant was killed in a scuffle when Gaius Gracchus and his friends gathered to oppose Minucius Rufus? the consul Lucius OPIMIUS' (p. 209) 50. What resolution passed by the Senate declares that the State is in danger and charges the consuls and other high magistrates "to see that the Republic takes no harm"? SENATUS CONSULTUM ULTIMUM (p. 209) 51. In what year was the senatus consultum ultimum first used? BC 121 (p. 563) 52. On what hill did Gaius Gracchus and his adherents make their final stand? AVENTINE (p. 210) 53. What city requested assistance from Rome to repel Ligurian raiders in 154 BC and again in 125 BC? MASSILIA (modern Marseilles) (p. 210) 54. In 154 BC who led a Roman army against Ligurian raiders in Transalpine Gaul? Quintus OPIMIUS (p. 210) 55. What small settlement (or castellum) of Roman veterans was established in 123 BC to protect the hinterland of Massilia? AQUAE SEXTIAE (Aix) (p. 210) 56. Who established Aquae Sextiae? Gaius Sextius CALVINUS (p. 210) 57. Who led the Romans to victory against the Allobroges 121 BC? the proconsul Gnaeus DOMITIUS AHENOBARBUS (p. 210) see n8. 58. Who defeated the Arverni and slew 120,000 Gauls with a loss of only 15 on his side? Quintus FABIUS MAXIMUS Allobrogicus (p. 211) see n8. 59. Which king of the Arverni was defeated by Quintus Fabius Maximus and taken to Rome as a prisoner? BITUITUS (p. 211) 60. What was the Roman name for the modern city of Nimes? NEMAUSUS (p. 211) 61. What was the Roman name for the modern city of Toulouse? TOLOSA (p. 211) 62. With what tribe did the Romans forge an alliance about the time of the defeat of the Allobroges and Arverni? AEDUI (p. 211) 63. Following their evacuation by the Carthaginians, what islands were the base of operations for pirates until they were reduced by the Romans in 123 BC? the BALEARIC islands (p. 211) 64. Who earned the cognomen Balearicus for his conquest of the Balearic islands in 123 BC? Quintus CAECILIUS METELLUS (p. 211) 65. The earliest known Latin inscription from Gaul is a milestone on what road that runs from the Rhone to the Pyrenees? VIA DOMITIA (p. 211, 611) 66. What colony of Roman veterans was founded in Gallia Transalpina in 118 BC by Lucius Crassus and the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus? NARBO (p. 211, 611) see n9. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- n1. Gaius Laelius brought up agrarian reform for discussion/debate during either his praetorship (145 BC) or possibly his consulship (140 BC). n2. Scaevola was one of the consuls in 133 BC. Crassus was his brother and, after his adoption into the Licinian gens, became a brother-in-law of Claudius Pulcher. n3. Tiberius Gracchus had organized a mob to seek re-election as tribune (OCD p. 399). n4. Scipio Nasica Serapio is incorrectly listed as Scipio Nasica Scipio in the genealogical table on page 572. Scipio Nasica (cos. 138) does not appear in the index. Mentions of him in the text were indexed as those of his father, Scipio Nasica (cos. 162). n5. He was sent to Asia as head of a mission in connection with the annex- ation of the province. He died at Pergamum. n6. In 131 BC, he and Pompeius were the first plebeian pair of censors (OCD p. 269). n7. The leges tabellariae that introduced secret ballot were: ________Lex_______ _Anno_ ___________Locus__________ Gabinia tabellaria 139 BC Elections Cassia tabellaria 137 BC Assembly trials except for perduellio (treason) Papiria tabellaria 131 BC Legislative assemblies Coelia tabellaria 107 BC Assembly trials for perduellio (treason) n8. Based on the OCD entries, Domitius Ahenobarbus led forces against the Allobroges and Arverni at 2 major battles, one of which he fought with Fabius Maximus. Depending on the specific wording of the question, either answer might be correct. n9. Hence, the province of Gallia Transalpina was also called Gallia Narbonensis. Bradford Duncan