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6. Tacitus wrote the Annals (book the extract is taken from) just under 100 years after the event.

  • True
  • False

7. Germanicus died

  • In Syracuse
  • In Antioch
  • In Rome
  • In Babylon

8. Which one of these is not true? Plancina...

  • Changes into bright clothes when germanicus dies
  • Hurls insults at Germanicus and Agrippina
  • Is not on trial
  • Abandons her husband when she knows he will be condemned

9. Which of these is a tableau?

  • Germanicus' friends prosecuting Piso
  • The crowd of people rushing to see Agrippina
  • Agrippina getting off the ship with the ashes and her children
  • Tiberius making a speech to the senate

10. deinde biduum criminibus obiciendis statuitur utque post intervallum sex dierum reus per triduum defenderetur.

  • Then two days were allocated for the presenting of charges and it was decreed that after an interval of six days the defendant should be defended for three days.
  • Then the senate announced that after and interval of two weeks Piso would be condemned to six days of punishment for the many crimes he commited
  • Then, it was decreed that after an interval of one hour the trial would begin and the prosecutors would present their case for six days followed by the defendants for three days.

11. How many friends of Germanicus prosecuted Piso?

  • 1
  • 3
  • 2
  • 4
  • none