Magister Litterārum
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Rome, under the emperor Domitian. In a portico beside a garden, a grammaticus, a teacher of literature, reads aloud from a scroll of Vergil to a circle of pupils with their tablets and pens. Doves sit on the roof, and a small dog sleeps at his feet.
Today the pupils must learn the opening of the Aeneid by heart. Seven puzzles stand between them and the end of the lesson. Solve them all, and one last word names what the teacher wants from them.
Crossword — the school, books and poetry, in Latin from Book 4.
Anagrams — unscramble seven things done in a lesson.
Cipher — decode a message in Latin, then answer the riddle it asks.
Matching — two verbs, legō ("read") and audiō ("hear"), as infinitives: present, perfect and future, active and passive.
Picture Count — reassemble the portico, then count what you see.
Odd One Out — find the word that doesn't belong in each row to build the story, then answer questions about it.
Final Rebus — one clue from every lock. Their first letters spell the final word.
Every answer box checks itself. Spelling and capitals are forgiving, and macrons are never needed.
Fourteen words from the lesson. Every clue gives the English meaning; you supply the Latin. Fill the grid — every crossing letter must agree both ways. Six cells are marked in red: once the grid is solved, their letters unscramble into one more word.
The grid is correct. Unscramble the six red letters:
Seven things done in a lesson. Unscramble each one.
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The password was:
Placet — it pleases: the teacher's highest praise. Vergil, he tells the class, is the best of poets, and today every one of them has learned his opening lines by heart.