Ancient Rome (2)

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Any dialect of the language of ancient Rome (5)
  2. 7. Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (4)
  3. 8. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan (7)
  4. 10. Roman statesman who established the Roman Empire and became emperor in 27 BC (8)
  5. 11. A person of refined upbringing and manners (9)
  6. 14. Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars (6)
  7. 15. The upper house of the United States Congress (6)
  8. 16. A port city in southern England on the English Channel (6)

Down

  1. 1. United States comedian who pioneered comedy television shows (6)
  2. 3. The twin brother of Romulus (5)
  3. 4. A public meeting or assembly for open discussion (5)
  4. 5. A person who behaves in a tyrannical manner (8)
  5. 6. The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation (plural) (9)
  6. 9. General who commanded the Carthaginian army in the second Punic War (8)
  7. 12. A Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (6)
  8. 13. A burial chamber (5)