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| How many books did Cato's Origines contain? | 7 | 100%
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| How many books did Naevius' Bellum Punic contain? | 7 | 100%
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| What meter did Lucilius establish as the meter of Roman satire? | Dactylic Hexameter | 100%
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| What genre was Lucilius the first to focus exclusively on? | satire | 100%
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| What was the purpose of Livius Andronicus' Odussia? | textbook | 100%
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| In what year did Lucilius die? | 102 BC | 0%
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| In what year did Pacuvius die? | 130 BC | 0%
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| In what year did Cato the Elder die? | 149 BC | 0%
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| In what year did Terence die? | 159 BC | 0%
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| In what year did Terence make his theatrical debut? | 166 BC | 0%
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| In what year did Quintus Ennius die? | 169 BC | 0%
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| How many books did Ennius' Annales contain? | 18 | 0%
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| In what year was Lucilius born? | 180 BC | 0%
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| In what year did Plautus die? | 184 BC | 0%
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| In what year did Gnaeus Naevius die in exile at Utica? | 201 BC | 0%
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| In what year did Livius Andronicus die? | 204 BC | 0%
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| In what year did Livius Andronicus compose a parthenion in honor of Juno? | 207 BC | 0%
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| In what year was Pacuvius born in Brundisium? | 220 BC | 0%
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| In what year was Cato the Elder born at Tusculum? | 234 BC | 0%
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| In what year was Gnaeus Naevius born near Capua? | 270 BC | 0%
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| In what year did Livius Andronicus come to Rome as a slave? | 272 BC | 0%
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| In what year was Livius Andronicus born at Tarentum? | 284 BC | 0%
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| How many books of Satires made up Lucilius' Sermones? | 30 | 0%
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| Which play of Terence is a comedy about twins, one born in the country and one born in the city? | Adelphi | 0%
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| Which Broadway play is based on a compilation of Plautus' plays? | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | 0%
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| Who acted in all of Terence's plays? | Ambivius Turpio | 0%
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| Which play of Plautus deals with the confusion over Hercules' birth? | Amphitruo | 0%
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| Which play of Plautus is the only one with a mythological subject? | Amphitruo | 0%
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| Which play of Terence was his earliest work? | Andria | 0%
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| In the prologue of which of Terence's plays does he defend his use of contaminatio? | Andria | 0%
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| Which work of Quintus Ennius is an 18-book epic poem on Roman history? | Annales | 0%
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| In what city were all of Terence's plays set? | Athens | 0%
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| Which play of Plautus deals with the misfortunes of a miser named Euclio who tries to hide his fortune? | Aulularia | 0%
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| In Plautus' Pseudolus, what pimp is swindled out of one of his girls? | Ballio | 0%
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| What was the title of Naevius' epic on the First Punic War? | Bellum Punicum | 0%
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| Which work of Gnaeus Naevius is an epic poem about the First Punic War, written in Saturnian verse? | Bellum Punicum | 0%
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| Where was Pacuvius in 220 BC? | Brundisium | 0%
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| What Latin term did Livius Andronicus use to translate "Muse"? | Camena | 0%
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| Which play of Plautus has no female characters? | Captivi | 0%
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| Which play of Plautus deals with the efforts of a well-to-do father to ransom his son who has been taken prisoner of war? | Captivi | 0%
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| Which play of Plautus mentions the imprisonment of Naevius? | Captivi | 0%
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| Where was Terence born in 195 or 185 BC? | Carthage | 0%
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| What author, known for his old-fashioned and puritanical style, was called the "father of Latin prose"? | Cato the Elder | 0%
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| What author was born in 234 BC at Tusculum? | Cato the Elder | 0%
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| What author was called the "Father of Latin Prose"? | Cato the Elder | 0%
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| Who brought Quintus Ennius to Rome? | Cato the Elder | 0%
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| What author brought Quintius Ennius to Rome? | Cato the Elder | 0%
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| Who was the first to write history in Latin? | Cato the Elder | 0%
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| What political office did Cato the Elder hold in 184 BC? | censor | 0%
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| What author regarded Livius Andronicus' work as antiquated and not worth reading? | Cicero | 0%
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| Who considered Pacuvius the greatest of Latin tragic poets? | Cicero | 0%
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| What are the titles of Naevius' two fabulae praetextae? | Clastidium & Romulus | 0%
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| What is contaminatio? | combination of elements of multiple Greek plays into on Latin play | 0%
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| Which play of Plautus deals with a parasit of a young man who is in love with a courtesan? | Curculio | 0%
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| Which play of Plautus was his shortest? | Curculio | 0%
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| Which work of Cato the Elder was the earliest Latin prose work to come down to us in its entirety? | De Agri Cultura | 0%
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| Which work of Cato the Elder was a treatise on farming? | De Agri Cultura | 0%
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| What is the alternate title of Cato's De Agri Cultura? | De Re Rustica | 0%
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| Which work of Pacuvius depicts Orestes driven mad by the Furies? | Dulorestes | 0%
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| In Plautus' Aulularia, what miser tries to hide his fortune? | Euclio | 0%
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| Which play of Terence was his biggest commercial success? | Eunuchus | 0%
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| What honorific title was given to Livius Andronicus? | Father of Latin Literature | 0%
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| What is Lucilius' full name? | Gaius Lucilius | 0%
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| Who wrote a fabula praetexta entitled Clastidium? | Gnaeus Naevius | 0%
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| Which author remarked "Fato Metelli fiunt Romae consules"? | Gnaeus Naevius | 0%
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| What author pioneered "fabulae praetextae", tragedies written on Roman historical material? | Gnaeus Naevius | 0%
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| Who wrote the Bellum Punicum, the first epic on an Italian subject? | Gnaeus Naevius | 0%
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| Who wrote a fabula praetexta entitled Romulus? | Gnaeus Naevius | 0%
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| Which author was exiled to Utica because of his fued with the Metelli family? | Gnaeus Naevius | 0%
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| Whose Bellum Punicum details the events from Aeneas' arrival in Latium down to the First Punic War? | Gnaeus Naevius | 0%
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| Which author died at Utica in 201 BC? | Gnaeus Naevius | 0%
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| What dramatist was the first native Italian to write Latin literature? | Gnaeus Naevius | 0%
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| Who was the first to write an epic on an entirely Italian subject? | Gnaeus Naevius | 0%
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| What author was born in 270 BC at Capua? | Gnaeus Naevius | 0%
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| What three languages made up Ennius' three hearts? | Greek, Oscan, Latin | 0%
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| Which play of Terence deals with Clinia who is about to be separated from his wife? | Heauton Timorumenos | 0%
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| In which play of Terence does the title character remark "homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto"? | Heauton Timorumenos | 0%
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| Which play of Terence did the audience leave in preference for a show of tightrope walkers during the first and second attempts? | Hecyra | 0%
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| Which play of Terence was only produced after two failed attempts? | Hecyra | 0%
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| What author called Lucilius his lantern for his influence in Satire? | Horace | 0%
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| Translate Naevius' remark "fato Metelli fiunt Romae consules". | It's fate that makes the Metelli consules at Rome | 0%
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| What grammarian arranged Naevius' Bellum Punicum into 7 Books? | Lampadio | 0%
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| What author came to Rome as a slave in 272 BC? | Livius Andronicus | 0%
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| Who wrote the first Roman comedy and Roman tragedy for the Ludi Romani of 240 BC? | Livius Andronicus | 0%
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| Who wrote the first Latin translation of Homer's Odyssey? | Livius Andronicus | 0%
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| What author was the first to produce plays in Rome? | Livius Andronicus | 0%
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| What author was called the "Father of Latin Literature"? | Livius Andronicus | 0%
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| What author composed a parthenion in honor of Juno in 207 BC? | Livius Andronicus | 0%
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| What author was born in 284 B.C. at Tarentum? | Livius Andronicus | 0%
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| For whose children did Livius Andronicus compose the Odussia as a textbook? | Livius Salinator | 0%
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| What author did Horace call his lantern for his influence in Satire? | Lucilius | 0%
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| Whose satires on a trip to Brundisium and an ancounter with a bore were models for Horace? | Lucilius | 0%
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| Who wrote a 30 book collection of Satires called Sermones? | Lucilius | 0%
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| What author established hexameter as the meter of Roman satire? | Lucilius | 0%
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| Who was the first Latin write to focus exclusively on Satire? | Lucilius | 0%
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| What author was the great-uncle of Pompey the Great? | Lucilius | 0%
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| What author was born in 180 BC at Suessa Aurunca? | Lucilius | 0%
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| What is Livius Andronicus' full name? | Lucius Livius Andronicus | 0%
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| For what event in 240 BC did Livius Andronicus compose the first Roman comedy and tragedy? | Ludi Romani | 0%
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| What is the alternate title of Lucilius' Sermones? | Ludus ac Sermones | 0%
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| What was Pacuvius' full name? | Marcus Pacuvius | 0%
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| What is Cato the Elder's full name? | Marcus Porcius Cato | 0%
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| Which play of Plautus deals with twins seperated at birth? | Menaechmi | 0%
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| Which play of Plautus is the primary model for Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors? | Menaechmi | 0%
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| With what family did Gnaeus Naevius have a fued which got him exiled to Utica? | Metelli | 0%
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| Which play of Plautus deals with a clever slave who manages to steal away from the boastful soldier Pyrgopolyneices the girl loved by his young master? | Miles Gloriosus | 0%
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| Which play of Plautus was his longest? | Miles Gloriosus | 0%
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| Which play of Plautus deals with the slave Tranio who convinces his master's father that his house is haunted? | Mostellaria | 0%
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| What style of Greek comedy did Plautus and Terence employ? | New Comedy | 0%
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| Which work of Pacuvius depicts Ulysses' death at the hands of Telegonus? | Niptra | 0%
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| What was the earliest extant work of Latin literature? | Odussia | 0%
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| Which work of Livius Andronicus is a Latin translation of Homer's Odyssey? | Odussia | 0%
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| What is the translation of Dulorestes? | Orestes the Slave | 0%
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| Which work of Cato the Elder begins with a line of hexameter? | Origines | 0%
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| Which work of Cato the Elder was a 7-book history of Rome? | Origines | 0%
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| Which work of Cato the Elder was the first prose historical text in Latin? | Origines | 0%
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| Who wrote the tragedies Dulorestes and Niptra? | Pacuvius | 0%
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| What nephew of Ennius was a famous tragedian? | Pacuvius | 0%
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| What author did Cicero consider the "greatest of Latin tragic poets"? | Pacuvius | 0%
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| What type of poem did Livius Andronicus compose in honor of Juno in 207 BC? | parthenion | 0%
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| Which author was born at Sarsina c. 254 BC? | Plautus | 0%
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| The Broadway play "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" is based on a compilation of which author's plays? | Plautus | 0%
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| Varro said that if the Muses had spoken Latin they would have spoken the type that appeared in which author's plays? | Plautus | 0%
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| What comic playwright was born at Sarsina c. 254 BC? | Plautus | 0%
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| Which play of Plautus deals with a clever slave who tricks the pimp Ballio out of a girl his young master loves? | Pseudolus | 0%
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| What was Terence's full name? | Publius Terentius Afer | 0%
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| In Plautus' Miles Gloriosus, what boastful soldier is swindled out of his girl? | Pyrgopolyneices | 0%
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| What author first adapted dactylic hexameter from Greek poetry into Latin? | Quintus Ennius | 0%
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| What author wrote an 18-book epic on Roman history entitled Annales? | Quintus Ennius | 0%
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| What author made dactylic hexameter the official meter of Latin epic poetry? | Quintus Ennius | 0%
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| Who was the first Latin writer to compose Satire? | Quintus Ennius | 0%
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| What poet claimed that he had three hearts because he spoke Latin, Greek, and Oscan? | Quintus Ennius | 0%
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| What poet was the famous uncle of Pacuvius? | Quintus Ennius | 0%
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| What author was born in 239 BC at Rudiae in Calabria? | Quintus Ennius | 0%
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| Where was Quintus Ennius born in 239 BC? | Rudiae (in Calabria) | 0%
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| Where was Plautus born c. 254 BC? | Sarsina | 0%
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| In what early Italian meter was the Odussia written? | Saturnian | 0%
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| Who was the literary patron of Terence? | Scipio Aemilianus | 0%
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| What was the title of Lucilius' collection of Satires? | Sermones | 0%
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| Where was Lucilius born in 180 BC? | Suessa Aurunca | 0%
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| Where was Livius Andronicus born in 284 B.C.? | Tarentum | 0%
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| What comic playwright was born in Carthage in 195 BC? | Terence | 0%
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| What author was born ca. 195 BC in Carthage? | Terence | 0%
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| What comic playwright was brought to Rome from Carthage as a slave? | Terence | 0%
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| What is the translation of Niptra? | The Bath | 0%
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| What is the translation of "Miles Gloriosus"? | The Braggart Soldier | 0%
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| What is the translation of "Adelphi"? | The Brothers | 0%
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| What is the translation of "Mostellaria"? | The Haunted House | 0%
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| What is the translation of "Hecyra"? | The Mother-in-Law | 0%
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| What is the translation of "Aulularia"? | The Pot of Gold | 0%
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| What is the translation of "Heauton Timorumenos"? | The Self-Tormentor | 0%
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| What is the translation of "Andria"? | The Woman of Andros | 0%
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| What was Plautus' full name? | Titus Maccius Plautus | 0%
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| What are fabulae praetextae? | tragedies written on Roman historical material | 0%
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| In Plautus' Mostellaria, what clever slave convinces his master's father that his house is haunted? | Tranio | 0%
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| Where was Cato the Elder born in 234 BC? | Tusculum | 0%
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| Where did Gnaeus Naevius die in exile in 201 BC? | Utica | 0%
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| To what African city was Naevius exiled because of his fued with the Metelli family? | Utica | 0%
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