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Lines by this poet were rearranged to praise Christ in an epic by the early Christian poet Faltonia Betitia Proba. For 10 points each:
[10e] Poems of the “patchwork” cento (“CHEN-toh”) form typically consisted of repurposed lines from what poet’s corpus, such as his Eclogues (“ECK-logs”) and Georgics?
ANSWER: Vergil [or Virgil; or Publius Vergilius Maro; accept Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi]
[10m] One of the North African centos in the Codex Salmasianus commemorates one of these events involving the Vandal noble Fridus. Sappho wrote “raise high the roof beam, carpenters” in a poem about one of these events.
ANSWER: weddings [or marriages or nuptials or equivalents; or nuptiae or gamos or gamoi; accept epithalamion or epithalamium or “Epithalamium Fridi” ]
[10h] This poet wrote an obscene epithalamium called the Cento Nuptialis. This 4th-century poet described a bureaucrat’s typical day in the Ephemeris and a journey down the title Gallic river in the Mosella.
ANSWER: Ausonius [or Decimus Magnus Ausonius]
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WUSTL ACornell A1010020
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NYUToronto A1010020
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