Packet 3: Bonus 7
One poem that uses this type of line demands that the addressee return an object from Iberia or expect 300 more verses using them. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these Latin lines used for a “nuga” about a “little book […] polished with dry pumice” and addressed to historian Cornelius Nepos. Phalaecus names a version of this line that begins with an Aeolic base and a choriamb (“KOR-ee-am”).
ANSWER: hendecasyllabics [or hendecasyllables; or hendecasyllabus; accept Phalaecian hendecasyllable; prompt on eleven syllable lines]
[10e] This poet’s first numbered poem uses hendecasyllabics. This neoteric Roman poet threatens to sexually assault Furius and Aurelius in his invective poem number 16.
ANSWER: Catullus [or Gaius Valerius Catullus]
[10m] Phalaecian hendecasyllables were sometimes employed by this Hispania-born author, though he mostly wrote in elegiac couplets. This Silver Age poet wrote twelve books of epigrams.
ANSWER: Martial [or Marcus Valerius Martialis]
<UCLA, European Literature> | C. Prelims 3 - Cambridge + UCLA + Stanford B + Virginia
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 20.00 | 100% | 86% | 14% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruin | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia A | North Carolina | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia B | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Cornell | Waterloo | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgetown | Texas | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia Tech A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Harvard | Swarthmore | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Johns Hopkins | Vanderbilt | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Maryland A | MIT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| NYU A | Brown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Northwestern A | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Northwestern B | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Ohio State | WashU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Penn State | Minnesota | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Pittsburgh | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Rutgers | UCF | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford A | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto A | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Toronto B | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | British Columbia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Virginia Tech | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 20.00 | 100% | 86% | 14% |