Question
Book IV of the Annales recounts a speech given by the historian Cremutius Cordus during his trial for this crime, which prompted his suicide by starvation. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give the Latin word for this nebulous crime of “diminishing the greatness of the Roman people.” According to Tacitus, professional accusers called delatores won property from those accused of this crime under Tiberius.
ANSWER: maiestas [or majestas; accept lex maiestatis; reject “majesty,” “law of majesty,” or “Lèse-majesté”]
[10e] Cordus was charged with maiestas for writing a history that overly praised these two people. Junia Tertia, the wife of one of these people and half-sister of the other, died 64 years after they both died at the Battle of Philippi.
ANSWER: Brutus AND Cassius [or Marcus Junius Brutus AND Gaius Cassius Longinus]
[10m] The charge was first used by Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, who sought a catch-all way to prosecute incompetent generals in this war. “Mules,” or soldiers carrying their own packs, won this war at Vercellae.
ANSWER: Cimbrian War [or Cimbric War; accept equivalents mentioning a war against the Cimbri and Teutones]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 11 | 11.82 | 55% | 36% | 27% |
Data
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Les Missourables | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | The Jeam Team | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | var merchants | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |