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Festival of Saturn. Chief features include social role reversals and gift giving.

Christmas took place during the festival?

Saturnalia

Male followers of Dionysus and Hermes

Silenus, tutor of DionysusEasily excitable; usually

depicted with a tail and horns by the Romans and as a man by the Greeks…or apparently carrying of Venus by the Dutch

satyr

Settled, non-migratory, permanently attached (like barnacles)

sedentary

Always faithful

Semper fidelis

Always prepared

Semper paratus

Always thus to tyrantsMotto of VirginiaJohn Wilkes Booth

Sic semper tyrannis

Thus passes the glory of the world

Sic transit gloria mundi

First Roman provinceSyracuse, capital of Corinthian colony

Sicily

Something without which not

Sine qua non

First King of Corinth

Killed travelers and condemned to chains by Thanatos; chained Thanatos by tricking him; escaped and went back to Corinth; punished for all eternity

Sisyphus

Ancient hegemon of the Peloponnesus

Binomial kingshipLycurgus

Sparta

Gladiator, incited a slave rebellion Third Servile War, 73-71,

BCE He and his soldiers were put to death

Spartacus

Senatus Populusque Romanus

S.P.Q.R.

The state in whichThe way things are

Status quo

Acheron was the river of lamentation.

Cocytus was the river of woe.

Lethe was the river of forgetfulness.

Phlegethon was the river of fire.

Styx was the river of unbreakable oath, by which the gods swore. It was also the river of hate

Styx

Under penaltysubpoena duces

tecum

Sub poena

Under the roseSomething secret or confidential, like a tryst

or the Dead Poets’ Society

Sub rosa

With the highest praise

Summa cum laude

Stole nectar and ambrosia from the godsPunished by being unable to reach water or

food thanks to variable water and branch levels

Tantalus

A deep place, abyss, dark hole

Section of the Underworld reserved for bad ‘uns

Tartarus

Time flies

Tempus fugit

Solid ground, as opposed to ocean or watery swamp.

Bona fide earth.

Terra firma

Terra incognita

Athenian hero, synoikismosMinotaurBotched capture of Persephone with PirithousArgo

Theseus

Rome’s riverDrains into the Tyrrhenian Sea in Ostia basin

Tiber

Along with the tunic, the masculine dress of civility

toga

Tribuni plebis, militum, aerarii, et c.Tribus (?) – chiefDefended the plebs’ property and interests.

Gracchi.

tribune

UlyssesNeoptolomosLaocoön

Trojan horse

Illium, Illion

Troy

God of the heavens, father of Kronos

Uranus

Honored farewell speaker

valedictorian

Battle of Zela, 47 BCECaesar Pharnaces of the Bosphoros

Veni, vidi, vici, I came, I saw, I conquered

Word for word, in the exact words

verbatim

‘I forbid’Tribunes

veto

Road, pathBy the way of, by means of, by an agent

via

With the order changed, conversely, with relations reversed

Vice versa

against

Vs. versus

King of the godsSon of KronosConqueror of the TitansWielder of the thunderbolt

Zeus, Jupiter