Question

A man with this name introduces vices that the ignorant “called civilization, when it was but a part of their servitude” and is called fortunate “in the opportune moment of his death” in a peroration. A Frisian (“FREE-zhun”) humanist with this surname theorized notetaking in De formando studio and inspired Petrus Ramus’s simplified rhetorical logic in De inventione dialectica. A “Saxon Pliny” with this surname founded metallurgy in De re metallica. (10[1])This surname was taken by a bishop of Turku (10[1])whose ABC-kiria (10[2]-5[1])and Se Wsi (“say OOH-see”) Testamenti made him the “father of written Finnish.” A book about a man with this name originated (10[1])the phrase (-5[1])“they make a desert (-5[1])and call it peace”; (10[3]-5[2])that encomiastic (10[1])biography contrasts its subject’s moderatio and virtus (“WEER-tooss”) with Domitian’s tyranny. For 10 points, give this cognomen of a Roman governor eulogized by his (10[1])son-in-law Tacitus. (10[2])■END■ (10[5]0[7])

Back to tossups

Buzzes

Summary