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Stage 10: Anulus Aegyptius - Read & Respond
By Paul Spence
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Instructions:
Read the passage "Anulus Aegyptius" and answer the following questions. You may answer in English unless it specifically asks for Latin.
Question 1
1.
How did Syphax pay for his drink?
Question 2
2.
Why did he pay in this way?
Question 3
3.
Why do you think he meant in line 2 by saying
Neptunus navem meam delevit
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Question 4
4.
In lines 5-6, Syphax gives three pieces of information about the ring. What are they?
Question 5
5.
What did the innkeeper do with the ring when he returned home?
Question 6
6.
uxor postridie ad urbem contendebat
(line 9). Who met the wife? What two things did he make her do?
Question 7
7.
What did she find when she returned to the inn? (line 12)
Question 8
8.
What three things happened after the huge slave met the other slaves and they spotted the money? (lines 15-17)
Question 9
9.
Who found the ring?
Question 10
10.
Poppaea thought the ring was lucky. Who had the opposite opinion earlier in the story? Who do you think was write? Give evidence from the reading.