Instructions:
Read the passage "caerimonia" on page 48 of your textbook. Answer the following questions based on what you have read.
Where was the crowd gathered for the ceremony? Which three groups of people did Salvius and Quintus see there? (lines 2-5)?
haec multitudo (line 5). Suggest two English adjectives which you think best describe the crowd in this sentnece.
Where was the wax image? Whom did it represent? (lines 7-9)
bona est effigies. How did Salvius explain the good quality of the image (lines 11-12)?
In lines 13-15, how did the three different sections of the crowd behave?
Why was the king accompanied by a boy (lines 17-18)?
In lines 18-22, what two offerings did the king make? How did the priests assist the king in this ceremony?
After the priests sacrificed their victms, what did the British chieftains do (lines 25-26)?
Where was the image placed (lines 28-30)?
servus regi facem tradidit. What did the king do with the torch? What then happened to the image (lines 30-32)?
In lines 33-34, why did the spectators applaud?
What two things did the king say about Claudius (lines 35-36)? What did the aquila represent?