Ovid Quiz 3

If memory serves, the follow-up to Quiz 2 went better for most of us. The exception was Adam, who decorated his quiz in even more gaudy ways than on the previous one. At the top of the page, he writes "illigitimas non caparundum est" (which is close to, but not exactly, "don't let the bastards grind you down"), identifies himself as "Adam a.k.a. Bacchus" (the Roman god of being drunk and disorderly) and frames the name "Ovid" with a skull and crossbones.

The real treat is in the lower translation section. You'll note that Adam has drawn a tank firing off a shell, and the reason he was able to do so is that he probably had rather a lot of free time on his hands after completing this section. Our teacher had given us a chunk of Ovid beforehand, and told us that we would need to translate some sections of it for this quiz. Adam, along with several other students in the class, decided that Ovid's Latin was too difficult to translate on the fly, so they took to memorizing the passage translations. This strategy worked well for most, but Adam misidentified the section and ended up regurgitating something completely different. The teacher notes, "Wrong section - at least look at the Latin!"

On the flipside, he created another stunning work in the DOOM series, this time with a depiction of the video game's nameless hero: