Definitions

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  • noun a team competition in which contestants answer questions about classical history, culture, and mythology, and the Latin language.

Etymologies

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From Latin certāmen ("contest").

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Examples

  • I'm thinking it may also be beneficial to involve a copy of 'The Fragile Path', and few Hermetics, perhaps a certamen duel ...

    stormtiger Diary Entry stormtiger 2009

  • In defuncti locum eum jussit subrogari, qui inter majores virtute reliquis praeiret; non fuit apud mortales ullum excellentius certamen, aut cujus victoria magis esset expetenda, non enim inter celeres, celerrimo, non inter robustos robustissimo,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Non fuit apud mortales ullum excellentius certamen, non inter celeres celerrimo, non inter robustos robustissimo,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Iniquitates vestrae neminem latent, inque dies singulos certamen habetis quis pejor sit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Plebeius et nobilis ambiebant puellam, puellae certamen in partes venit, &c. 5861.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [6540] Nam certamen habent laethi quae viva sequatur

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Carthaginem deletam populus et senatus Romanus placide modesteque inter se rem publicam tractabant, neque gloriae neque dominationis certamen inter cives erat; metus hostilis in bonis artibus civitatem retinebat.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Sed gloriae maximum certamen inter ipsos erat: sic se quisque hostem ferire, murum ascendere, conspici, dum tale facinus faceret, properabat; eas [58] divitias, eam bonam famam magnamque nobilitatem putabant; laudis avidi, pecuniae liberales erant; gloriam ingentem, divitias honestas volebant.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Sed diu magnum inter mortales certamen fuit, [9] vine corporis an virtute animi res militaris magis procederet.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Sed ubi res ad certamen venit, victus ex proelio profugit in provinciam [74] ac deinde Romam contendit.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

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