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CLE. S - Z. Saturnalia. Festival of Saturn. Chief features include social role reversals and gift giving. Christmas took place during the festival? . satyr. Male followers of Dionysus and Hermes Silenus , tutor of Dionysus

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  1. CLE S-Z

  2. Saturnalia • Festival of Saturn. Chief features include social role reversals and gift giving. • Christmas took place during the festival?

  3. satyr • Male followers of Dionysus and Hermes • Silenus, tutor of Dionysus • Easily 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

  4. sedentary • Settled, non-migratory, permanently attached (like barnacles)

  5. Semperfidelis • Always faithful

  6. Semperparatus • Always prepared

  7. Sic sempertyrannis • Always thus to tyrants • Motto of Virginia • John Wilkes Booth

  8. Sic transit gloria mundi • Thus passes the glory of the world

  9. Sicily • First Roman province • Syracuse, capital of Corinthian colony

  10. Sine qua non • Something without which not

  11. Sisyphus • 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

  12. Sparta • Ancient hegemon of the Peloponnesus • Binomial kingship • Lycurgus

  13. Spartacus • Gladiator, incited a slave rebellion • Third Servile War, 73-71, BCE • He and his soldiers were put to death

  14. S.P.Q.R. • SenatusPopulusqueRomanus

  15. Status quo • The state in which • The way things are

  16. Styx • 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

  17. Sub poena • Under penalty • subpoena ducestecum

  18. Sub rosa • Under the rose • Something secret or confidential, like a tryst or the Dead Poets’ Society

  19. Summa cum laude • With the highest praise

  20. Tantalus • Stole nectar and ambrosia from the gods • Punished by being unable to reach water or food thanks to variable water and branch levels

  21. Tartarus • A deep place, abyss, dark hole • Section of the Underworld reserved for bad ‘uns

  22. Tempus fugit • Time flies

  23. Terra firma • Solid ground, as opposed to ocean or watery swamp. • Bona fide earth.

  24. Terra incognita

  25. Theseus • Athenian hero, synoikismos • Minotaur • Botched capture of Persephone with Pirithous • Argo

  26. Tiber • Rome’s river • Drains into the Tyrrhenian Sea in Ostia basin

  27. toga • Along with the tunic, the masculine dress of civility

  28. tribune • Tribuniplebis, militum, aerarii, et c. • Tribus (?) – chief • Defended the plebs’ property and interests. Gracchi.

  29. Trojan horse • Ulysses • Neoptolomos • Laocoön

  30. Troy • Illium, Illion

  31. Uranus • God of the heavens, father of Kronos

  32. valedictorian • Honored farewell speaker

  33. Veni, vidi, vici, I came, I saw, I conquered • Battle of Zela, 47 BCE • Caesar • Pharnaces of the Bosphoros

  34. verbatim • Word for word, in the exact words

  35. veto • ‘I forbid’ • Tribunes

  36. via • Road, path • By the way of, by means of, by an agent

  37. Vice versa • With the order changed, conversely, with relations reversed

  38. Vs. versus • against

  39. Zeus, Jupiter • King of the gods • Son of Kronos • Conqueror of the Titans • Wielder of the thunderbolt

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