SECTION A

1. Read the following passage and answer the questions in full detail.

The Emperor Caligula

Caligula’s love life

Caligula multas feminas amabat. saepe, senatoribus ad cenam

invitatis, si uxor cuiusdam ei placebat, marito imperavit ut eam repudiaret:
deinde ipse eam amare poterat. etiam sororem suam,
Drusillam, adeo amabat ut, postquam mortua est, maximos honores ei
daret. inter tot feminas, una, Caesonia nomine, amorem imperatoris diu
accipiebat. Caligula eam, quamquam nec pulchra neque iuvenis erat,
iamque tres filias ex alio viro habebat, tandem in matrimonium duxit.

Names
Caligula, ae m. Caligula
Drusilla, ae f. Drusilla
Caesonia, ae f. Caesonia

Words
repudio, -are, -avi I divorce
honos, -oris m. honour

(a) Caligula ... amabat (line 1) what are we told about Caligula? [3]

(b) neque... poterat (lines 1-3): which four of the following statememts are true? Write down
the letters for the ones that are correct.

A Caligula invited senators to dinner

B Senators invited Caligula to dinner
C Someone liked Caligula’s wife
D a senator’s wife liked Caligula
E Caligula liked a senator’s wife
F Caligula ordered the senators to divorce his wife
G the senator ordered his wife to divorce him
H Caligula could then have an affair with the woman [4]

(c) etiam ... daret (lines 3-5):

(i) who was Drusilla? [1]
(ii) how did Caligula show his great passion for her? [4]

(d) inter ... accipiebat (lines 5-6): what was special about Caesonia? [4]

(e) Caligula ... duxit (lines 6-7): what reasons might Caligula have had for not marrying Caesonia?
[4]

(f) Choose four of the following Latin words and for each one give an English word derived wholly
or partly from the same root:
invitatis - imperavit - honores - poterat - mortua
Total mark 24
 SECTION B

2. Translate the following passage into English. Write your translation on alternate lines.

The death of Caligula

Caligula, per quattuor annos in quibus imperium tenebat, tot

homines occidit ut cives magnopere timerent, ne ira imperatoris contra
se verteretur. is multos necavit ut pecuniam eorum raperet, alios
quod eum non satis laudaverant, ceteros nulla alia causa quam
quod optimi viri erant. senatores, qui eum maxime oderant, tandem
duobus militibus persuaserunt ut imperatorem gladiis percuterent.
milites, dum imperatorem necant, senem conspexerunt post ianuam
celatum. illum quoque, quod viderat quid accidisset, necare paraverunt.
tum milites senem agnoverunt: erat Claudius, patruus Caligulae.
milites eum imperatorem proximum futurum esse statim nuntiaverunt.

Names
Claudius, -ii m. Claudius

Words
percutio, percuti, percussi I strike
agnosco, -ere, -novi I recognise
accido, -ere, accidi happen
patruus, -i m. uncle