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Question

Many of the 132 surviving verses of the esoteric Saturnian meter come from Livius Andronicus’s translation of a poem by this author, which he opened with the invocation to one of the Camenae. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this possibly blind Greek poet who was widely studied in the Medieval era via the Ilias Latina, an abridged Latin translation of the first of two epic poems detailing the Trojan War.

ANSWER: Homer [or Homeros]

[10m] Saturnian meter was largely supplanted by the most common meter in Latin poetry, a hexameter named for these feet. The name of these feet references their long, short-short structure.

ANSWER: dactyl [accept dactylic hexameter]

[10h] In Latin poetry, dactylic hexameter necessitated one of these features in either the third or fourth foot of each line. These prosodic features, contrasted with a diaeresis, came in strong and weak forms depending on which syllable of the dactyl they followed.

ANSWER: caesurae

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	17.50	88%	63%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	8	23.75	100%	100%	38%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	17.14	100%	71%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	7	20.00	100%	86%	14%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	18.33	83%	67%	33%

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Michigan B	Ohio State C	10	10	0	20
Michigan D	Ohio State A	10	0	0	10
Michigan C	Oberlin	10	0	0	10
Art of Premature Signaling	girl 15 whale i mean they	10	10	10	30
Jason B	Claremont B	10	10	0	20
UCLA A	Caltech	10	10	0	20
UCSB	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
Michigan A	Ohio State B	10	10	0	20
Ohio State D	Pittsburgh	10	10	0	20
Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	Billy's Bastion	10	0	0	10
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Too much from you lately	10	10	0	20
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	10	0	0	10
Brandeis	Lexington	10	10	0	20
Brown	Harvard	10	0	0	10
MIT	Belmont	10	10	0	20
George Washington	Catholic University of America	10	0	0	10
Maryland A	George Mason B	10	10	0	20
CWRU	George Mason C	10	10	10	30
Georgetown	NYU B	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins A	NYU C	10	10	0	20
Haverford B	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	10	30
Haverford A	Maryland B	0	0	0	0
Rutgers	NYU A	10	0	0	10
UCSD	Claremont A	10	0	0	10
Arizona State University A	Alberta	10	10	0	20
Auburn 2026	Goober Gang	10	10	0	20
Illinois Orange	MSJ	10	10	0	20
mongeese	Mahjonng Masters	10	10	0	20
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	evil women enjoyers	10	10	10	30
Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	Gruh	10	10	10	30
Quatumvirate	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	10	10	10	30
Four Generalists in Search of a Power	Egypt Airlines Haters	10	10	0	20
Free Agents 1	Notre Dame + Epic Games	10	10	0	20
Birmingham	Sheffield C	10	0	0	10
Imperial A	Cambridge	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
Lancaster	LSE	10	0	0	10
Manchester	Sheffield A	10	10	0	20
Sheffield B	Warwick A	10	10	0	20
Warwick B	Warwick C	10	10	0	20
Carleton	Arizona State University B	10	0	0	10
Mac A	UBC	10	10	0	20
McGill A	Toronto C	10	10	0	20
Ottawa A	McGill B	10	10	0	20
Simon Fraser	Waterloo A	10	0	10	20
Toronto B	Toronto A	10	10	0	20
Toronto D	Guelph	10	10	0	20
Toronto E	Waterloo C	10	10	0	20
UW B	South Dakota School of Mines	10	0	0	10
4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	Master and Margaritaville	10	10	0	20
Somehow Paula Deen Returned	Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	10	10	0	20
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Even in Blacksburg There I Am	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Truman State	10	10	0	20
Iowa State	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Missouri	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
SIUE	WashU Bulbasaur	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	WashU Squirtle	10	10	0	20
UW A	Washington Connections	10	0	0	10