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Ludi Megalenses Certamen Historicum Rules

During Ludi Megalenses there will be a Certamen Historicum consisting of two questions for each of the seven days of the ludi. Individual questions will be worth from one to three points. The citizen with the highest number of point at the end of the contest will be declared winner.

All of the questions and answers will be published on the web site of Aediles and on NR mailing list. The main themes of this contest will be from Roman history, especially the history of these Ludi, the Cult of the Magna Mater, and the Punic Wars.
Every Nova Roma citizen is welcome in this cultural contest, including provisional citizens.

The contest shall run from April 4th to April 10th. Each day, between 1600 and 2400 Rome time, the questions will be published and you have 24 hours to answer them. The correct answers will be published the following day and the winner will be announced, along with the final rankings, on April 11th.

Only answers sent to: icehunter@earthlink.net will be counted. Answers posted to a list or sent to another e-mail address will be invalid....

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Ludi Megalenses Certamen Latinum Rules

During Ludi Megalenses there will be a dual Latin contest, the Certamen Latinum, with two questions each day (quiz 1-7). This contest is not for Latinists or Latin speakers: it is for those who know some Latin linguistics, some Latin expressions, phrases or just started to learn Latin or are about starting it.

1) One question level 1 will be for those who don't know Latin at all, and one question level 2 for the benefit of those who are beginners or a bit advanced.

2) The two questions of the two different levels will create two separate contests with the same rules and scoring. Every contestant can participate in both contests, but it's also possible to participate in only one.

3) If you'll answer correctly you'll receive 2 points for each question (2 pts for questions of level 1 and 2 pts for questions of level 2, too). 1 point for the answers not complete. 0 for the wrong answers.

4) In each level the winner will be that contestant who will gain the most points.

All the questions and the answers will be published on the web site of Aedilis T. Iulius Sabinus and on NR mailing list.

Before 22.00 (Roman time) of each day of Ludi Megalenses the question will be published; you have 24 hrs to answer; the correct answer will be published the following day, from the 4th April to the 10th April; the final results with the classification and the winner will be published the 11th April.

All your answer HAVE TO BE POSTED ONLY to this email address: cnaeus_cornelius@yahoo.com

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Ludi Megalenses Circenses Rules

Ludi Megalenses Circenses is arranged at:
Quarters 6th April
Semifinals 8th April
Final 10th April

The Rules for Ludi Circenses follow the edictum given by past Curule Aediles:

EDICTUM AEDILICIUM DE RATIONE LUDORUM CIRCENSUM

I. Any Nova Roman citizen or socius who is not under Aedilician sanction may take part in the Ludi Circenses organised by the Aediles Curules. Each citizen may enter no more than one chariot per ludi.

II. An entrant who wishes to participate in the Ludi Circenses must send a subscription to iulius_sabinus@yahoo.com . Each subscription must bear the subject header "Ludi Circenses" and include the following information:

A. His/her name in Nova Roma;
B. The name of his/her driver;
C. The name of his/her chariot;
D. His/her tactics for the Quarter and Semifinals;
E. His/her tactics for the Finals;
F. The name of his/her "factio" or team ( Albata , Praesina , Russata or Veneta )
G. Dirty actions against another factio in a specific round (quarter-final, semi-final, or final) and amount of sesterces paid in support of it (an entrant does not have to pay sesterces to commission a dirty action, but doing so increases the chances of success);
H. Defence against dirty actions in a specific round (quarter-final, semi-final, or final) and amount of sesterces paid in support of it (an entrant does not have to pay sesterces to defend against a dirty action, but doing so decreases the chances of success of the dirty action);
I. If sesterces from multiple entrants are pooled to take a dirty action or defend against a dirty action, the subscription of each entrant of the pool must so indicate.

III. Tactics: Six (6) race tactics are possible:

A. To hurry in the last laps
B. To pass the curves closely the "spina" of the circus.
C. To support a constant pace
D. To lash the rivals
E. To push the rivals to the wall of the circus
F. To hurry in the straight lines

IV. Dirty actions.

A. An entrant can try the assassination of the driver of a rival factio or the sabotage of his/her chariot.

1. Assassination of the driver of a rival factio. The entrant must specify which factio he/she attacks. The base chance of success is 30 %. If the attempt fails it is is discovered and the name of the entrant who commissioned the assassination and those who contributed sesterces in support of the assassination will be announced and subject to disciplinary action by the Aediles Curules. Such disciplinary action may include disqualification from the current ludi, banning from future ludi for a specified period of time, or banning from participation in the ludi for the remainder of the year. The decision of the Aediles Curules in such matters is final. If the attempt is successful, the player with the murdered driver cannot take part in the race and the murderer remains undiscovered.

2. Sabotage of a chariot. The entrant must specify which factio he/she attacks. The base chance is 45 %. If the attempt is unsuccessful, it is discovered and the name of the entrant who commissioned the assassination and those who contributed sesterces in support of the sabotage will be announced and subject to disciplinary action by the Aediles Curules. Such disciplinary action may include disqualification from the current ludi, banning from future ludi for a specified period of time, or banning from participation in the ludi for the remainder of the year. The decision of the Aediles Curules in such matters is final. If the attempt is successful, the player with the broken chariot will have an accident in the race.

B. Defence against and support for dirty actions. Each entrant shall receive one hundred sesterces for each ludi. These sesterces may be used in any round of any race, accumulated from race to race, or accumulated from other entertainments (e.g., official-sponsored wagering on munera). These sesterces are not redeemable in Nova Roman or any other currency and may not be used outside the ways specified in this edictum. The Aediles Curules shall record the number of sesterces held and expended by each entrant and their computations shall be final and unappealable. The sesterces may be expended in any of the following ways:

1. Application of one hundred sesterces by any entrant to defence of his/her driver and chariot will render the driver and chariot immune for one round in the ludi;

2. Entrants from the same factio may pool their sesterces for defence in a round; for every one hundred sesterces pooled, the chance of success of a dirty action against that factio is reduced by 5% in that round.

3. Entrants may pool their sesterces for offence in a round; for every one hundred sesterces pooled, the chance of success of a dirty action against the targeted factio is increased by 5% in that round.

V. Organisation of Competition.

A. There will be three rounds to each competition: quarter, semi-finals, and final.

B. The competition will be for elimination in each round. Every race will involve no more than four entrants.

C. In the Quarter rounds there will be one entrant from each factio in each race, unless there are too few entrants from a factio to make this possible. The first two first place entrants shall advance to the semi-final round; the remaining two entrants will be eliminated.

D. In the Semifinal round the winners of the Quarter rounds shall compete. The winning entrants of the Semi-final rounds shall advance to the final.

E. In the Final round the four best players race; the first place entrant shall be the winner of the ludi.

VI. Computation of victory.

A. Accidents.

1. Before doing the calculations of a race, the Aediles Curules determine who has an accident. For it, they roll one dice 0-100 for every chariot. The resultant number will be its percentage of accident:

- The drivers with tactics 1 will have 0 to 15 percentage of accident always. 0 to 25 if there are one or more drivers with tactics 4 or 5.
- The drivers with tactics 2 will have 0 to 20 percentage of accident always. 0 to 35 if there are one or more drivers with tactics 4 or 5.
- The drivers with tactics 3 will have 0 to 10 percentage always.
- The drivers with tactics 4 will have 0 to 15 percentage always. 0 to 25 if there are other drivers with tactics 4.
- The drivers with tactics 5 will have 0 to 15 always. 0 to 25 if there are other drivers with tactics 5.
- The drivers with tactics 6 will have 0 to 5 percentage always. 0 to 20 if there are other drivers with tactics 4 or 5.

B. Calculation of the races.

1. The Aediles Curules shall determine whether any dirty actions are successful. If a dirty action is determined to be successful, a chariot shall be eliminated by lot from among the entrants of the targeted factio and either declare the driver assassinated or that an accident caused by sabotage has occurred.

2. After determining which chariots (if any) have been eliminated from a race due to an accident, the Aediles Curules must calculate the order in which the remaining teams finished the race.

3. The Aediles Curules will roll one die 0-10 for every entrant. This will be the Value of Race (VR) of every car.

4. To know the final position of a chariot in the race the VR of every player is divided by the sum of all the VR and the result is multiplied by 50. This ewstablishes each entrant's Chance to Win (CW). For example, if there is a race with 4 chariots with these VR: 6,5,4,2 then the first chariot, with the VR 6, would have the following Chance to to Win: 6/17 (17 is the sum of 6+5+4+2) x 50 = 17.6 (rounding, 18). The CW of the first chariot will be 18 points. The second chariot, with VR 5, would have 5/17x50 = 14.7 (rounding, 15), therefore its CW is 15 points.

5. The tactics modify the CW of the following way:

Tactics 1) +6 points.
Tactics 2) +8 points.
Tactics 3) No points. The tactics 4 and 5 do not affect it.
Tactics 4) +2 points. The tactics 5 do not affect it.
Tactics 5) +2 points. The tactics 4 do not affect it.
Tactics 6) +4 points.

For example, the Aediles Curules assign each entrant a specific range of numbers out of a series of 100 that is equal to the entrant's Chance to Win. They assign these team ranges consecutively. In our sample race, for example, Chariot 1's range (with tactics 2) would be 01 through 25 (18+7). Chariot 2's range (with tactics 4) would be 26 through 40.

6. In the final step the Aediles Curules will roll a die 0-100 to determine the order of finish. The chariot within whose range the first dice 0-100 roll falls is the team that finishes the race in first place. The chariot within whose range the second dice 0-100 roll falls is the team that finishes the race in second place. The chariot within whose range the third D100 roll falls is the chariot that finishes the race in third place, and so on. Once a chariot's position has been determined, subsequent rolls that fall within its range are ignored and the Aediles Curules roll again.

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Ludi Megalenses Cultural Award Rules

1. The Cultural Award of Ludi Megalenses 2759 a.U.c, is a competition open to any interested person, citizen, probationary citizen, peregrin etc.

2. This year the Cultural Award has as a subject not just a simple description of historical facts or military strategies of the Punic Wars, but its goal is, besides encouraging everyone to participate, to allow the participants to express their innermost believes and expectations. Both poetry and short stories (no longer than 500 words) are welcomed no matter the style and fictional approach. The subject in itself is rather vast and there are so many possible perspectives as different individuals have different passions. Works which talk about the setting of the roman camp or about the personal thoughts of a simple soldier before the battle will be regarded by the honorable jury with the same attention as for example the poems which describe the road either back home or the road to the realm of the heroes.
The challenge consists not only in proving one's literary talent but it aims at one's both general and personal view of roman life.

3. We will accept works ( short stories or poetry ) in any international language or in latin.

4. Each text must contain the following informations about the participant : Nova Roman name, real name, Nova Roma Province and e-mail adress.

5. A honourable member of the appointed jury will carefully read the poetry or short stories in its native language. It will be chosen the best poetry or short stories in any language, after the voting inside the jury. The winner will have to translate his work into english or latin for the benefit of all Nova Romani.

6. The jury is composed by the following honourable citizens :

- Gn. Equitius Marinus.

- P. Memmius Albucius.

- M. Iulius Severus.

- L. Iulius Sulla.

- A. Tullia Scholastica

- T. Iulius Sabinus.

7. The deadline to send the works is April 7th 2006 ( 2759 a.U.c. ) at 24.00 roman time; all works have to be sent only to the following e-mail adress : iulia.cytheris.aege@gmail.com with the subject " Cultural Award ".

8. The results will be published on April 11th 2006 ( 2759 a.U.c. ) at the Aediles Website and on the Main Mailing List of Nova Roma.

9. The texts will be archived by the Ludi organization. The participants give the copyrights of their text to Nova Roma accepting this regulation.This regulation is accepted by taking part to the "Ludi Megalenses - Cultural Award "

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Ludi Megalenses Munera Gladiatoria and Venationes Rules

The rules for Munera Gladiatoria and Venationes

There will be two classes of combats: Munera Gladiatoria and Venationes. The Munera Gladiatoria are between gladiators and the Venationes is between gladiators vs animals or animal vs animal. The players can choose one or two gladiators for Munera Gladiatoria, one gladiator ( optional ) and one or two animals for Venationes.

1. Gladiators' types

There are six types of gladiators, inspired by the gladiators of the imperial epoch. Inspired because nowadays we don´t know all the types of gladiators who existed due to the lack of information and the confusion about the armament and protections.

RETIARIUS: His weapon is the net, the trident and a dagger. His defenses are a protection of arm (manica), that includes the shoulder.
HOMOPLACHUS: His weapons are a lance and a dagger. His defenses are a closed crest hull, circular small shield and metallic shin pads. His defenses are protection of right arm and he can take a pectoral plate.
MURMILLO: His weapon is a short sword (gladius). His defenses are a closed great crest hull, rectangular big shield (scutum), protection in right arm and shin pad in left leg.
THRAEX: His weapon is a curved sword (sicca). His defenses are a closed hull, the crest of the hull has the shape of faucet, a quadrangular small shield (parmula), long metallic shin pads up to the thigh and protection in right arm.
SECUTOR: His weapon is a short sword (gladius). His defenses are closed smooth hull, rectangular big shield (scutum), protection in right arm and legs. Normally fight only against retiarii.
DIMACHAERUS: His weapons are two curved swords (siccae). His defenses are protections in arms and legs.

2. Animals´ Types

They are six, as the gladiators.

LION: An african beast of very bad character. Always hungry. Its bite is mortal and its claws are a very sharp threat.
LEOPARD: More skilful and beautiful than the lion. Nevertheless it has the same character and is very agile.
WILD BOAR: Pure force of the forest. If it gets angry, nobody is saved. It uses its fangs with lethal trickery.
BEAR: The bear fasts for months while they are hibernating. Then its hunger is enormous and it is very likely that they like the sweaty meat of the gladiators.
TIGER: It only thinks of eating people. It is stronger and hungrier than the lion, but it is afraid to the wild boar.
RHINOCEROS: It is unforseeable, but it´s always angered.

3. Rules of the Munera Gladiatoria and Venationes.

3.1. The players will complete the application form for Munera Gladiatoria and Venationes with his complete nova roman name and his e-mail adress.
3.2. The player will have to check in the application form the tactics, that he will choose among these three:
1) "Defensive" tactics. It adds one point, but the gladiator or animal has 40 % of probabilities of surviving in case of defeat, because the public does not like these tactics.
2) "Yourself" tactics. It neither adds nor take points. 50 % of probabilities of which the public asks for the death in case of defeat.
3) "Total attack" tactics. It reduced one point, but the gladiator or animal has 65 % of probabilities of surviving in case of defeat, because the public likes these tactics.
The tactics 1 is troublesome for the public, the 2 is normal and the 3 is flattering for the public. The tactics of every player are secret and only the aedilis and the player must know it. The aedilis and the player will not publicize it before or after the combats.
3.4. The player will have to write in the application form a short description ( about trainings, abilities, skills and others, to impresse the peoples ) of his gladiators and animals. His description will be voted by the peoples and that will increase or decrease his" popularity". In the fight time the number of votes add one point to the gladiator or animal who have more votes.
3.5. The fitting will be always according to the order of arrival of the messages to the aedilis (first vs second, etc ..).

4. Classifications

The maximum accepted participants are 32. The Munera Gladiatoria and Venationes are separated. In the morning the Venationes and Munera Gladiatoria in the evening. But their rules and calculations are the same. The fights will be pairs and the eliminating will be constant up to the great final in each section, Venationes and Munera Gladiatoria.

5. Calculations of the Munera Gladiatoria and Venationes.

5.1. A 1-10 dice is roll for every gladiator or animal. The result is the number of combat (CN). Then points are added or reduced on the CN according to the chosen tactics.

5.2. The CN is modified according to the type of opponent gladiator or animal:

Retiarius versus: Retiarius (0); Thraex (-2); Murmillo (-1); Dimachaerus (+2); Homoplachus (+1); Secutor (0); leopard (+1); lion (+1); tiger (-1); bear (-2); wild boar (-1)

Thraex versus: Retiarius (+2); Thraex (0); Murmillo (0); Dimachaerus (+1); Homoplachus (-1); Secutor (-2); leopard (+1); lion (+1); tiger (-2); bear (-1); wild boar (-1)

Murmillo versus: Retiarius (+1); Thraex (0); Murmillo (0); Dimachaerus (-2); Homoplacus (+2); Secutor (-1); leopard (+1); lion (0); tiger (0); bear (-1); wild boar (+1)

Dimachaerus versus: Retiarius (-2); Thraex (-1); Murmillo (+2); Dimachaerus (0); Homoplacus (0); Secutor (+1); leopard (-1); lion (-2); tiger (0); bear (0); wild boar (+1)

Homoplachus versus: Retiarius (-1); Thraex (+1); Murmillo (-2); Dimachaerus (0); Homoplachus (0); Secutor (+2); leopard (-1); lion (+1); tiger (-1); bear (+1); wild boar (0)

Secutor versus: Retiarius (0); Thraex (+2); Murmillo (+1); Dimachaerus (-1); Homoplachus (-2); Secutor (0); leopard (-2); lion (-1); tiger (+1); bear (+2); wild boar (-1)

Lion vs: Retiarius (-1); Thraex (-1); Murmillo (0); Dimachaerus (+2); Homoplachus (-1); Secutor (+1); leopard (+1); lion (0); tiger (-2); bear (-1); wild boar (+2)

Leopard vs: Retiarius (-1); Thraex (-1); Murmillo (-1); Dimachaerus (+1); Homoplachus (+1); Secutor (+2); leopard (0); lion (-1); tiger (-2); bear (+1); wild boar (+2)

Wild Boar: Retiarius (+1); Thraex (+1); Murmillo (-1); Dimachaerus (-1); Homoplachus (0); Secutor (+1); leopard (-2); lion (-2); tiger (+2); bear (-2); wild boar (0)

Bear: Retiarius (+2); Thraex (+1); Murmillo (+1); Dimachaerus (0); Homoplachus (-1); Secutor (-2); leopard (-1); lion (-2); tiger (+1); bear (0); wild boar (+2)

Tiger: Retiarius (+1); Thraex (+2); Murmillo (0); Dimachaerus (0); Homoplachus (+1); Secutor (-1); leopard (+2); lion (+2); tiger (0); bear (-1); wild boar (-2)

Rhinoceros: The nice rhinoceros does not imply calculations. It does a roll 1-100. If it is 1-40 the rival escapes hardly to its onslaught, therefore the rival doesn´t die. If it is 41 to 60 its rival wins incredibly and the gladiator receives the victory. If it is 61 to 100 its rival dies gored and squashed.

5.3. The gladiator or animal whose CN modified by the type of his opponent is the highest is the winner of the combat. If there is a tie then nobody wins the combat.

5.4. The spectators of the amphitheatre choose the destiny of the loser: A 1-100 dice is rolled. If the defeated one has chosen tactics 1, he has 40 % of probabilities of surviving (1-40). If his tactics was the 2, he has 50 % (1-50). If his tactics was the 3 he has 65 % (1-65). His level of "popularity" is important here, too.

6. Winners

The animal and gladiator winners will receive the plaudit of all Nova Roma. Their names and that of his/her owner will remain recorded in the collective memory of our city and in the web page of the Ludi.

Novi Romani ! Complete ( click to image ) the application form for :

MUNERA GLADIATORIA               AND         VENATIONES

Novi Romani ! Vote ( click to image ) for your preferate gladiators and / or animals :

MUNERA GLADIATORIA                    AND          VENATIONES

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Ludi Megalenses Face on Roman Body Contest

This is a simple contest, but with a lot of fun, where the Nova Romans citizens can participate. Send to Iulius Sabinus your image in jpg format, and, with a good resolution, in attachment at : iulius_sabinus@yahoo.com . The dead line to send the image is April 1st and April 9th is the date when you will see the results of his work. The best processed image will be chosen from all, by the Curule Aedilis Iulius Sabinus Cohors members, and it will represent the contest winner. The result will be published on April 11th 2006( 2759 ) at the Aediles Website Result section and on the Main Mailing List of Nova Roma.

An example is here : Face on Roman Body. I quaranty serious images without trivials. The resulted images aren't the Nova Roma property.

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