Competitive Latin & Classical Studies
Study smarter.
Compete better.
Compete better.
A study platform built by Certamen students, for Certamen students: your one-stop shop for
anything classical. Mythology, history, Latin grammar, culture, dactylic hexameter
and more, all in one place.
felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
Virgil, Georgics II.490
CertamenBot Features
Chat
Ask anything about Latin & classical studies
Type any question on mythology, Roman history, Latin grammar, or classical culture and
get a thorough answer grounded in the same sourcebooks used at competition.
Ask about the Trojan War, the cursus honorum, the ablative absolute, or the Vestal Virgins.
Question Generator
Practice with real tournament-style questions
Generate toss-up and bonus questions modeled after Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Nationals
rounds. Select your tournament, level, round, and category. Novice through Advanced,
Prelims through Finals.
Latin Scansion
The world's most accurate Latin scansion scanner
Backed by 256,000+ scanned lines, our scanner is the most accurate dactylic hexameter
scanner anywhere. Covers prosody, elision, muta cum liquida, and caesura.
Scan any line of Latin poetry instantly.
How it works
I
Pick your focus
Choose a tournament, level, round, and category, or jump straight into chat or scansion.
Everything mirrors real competition structure.
II
Practice & learn
Drill toss-ups and bonuses, ask grounded questions, and scan lines of poetry.
Reveal answers when you're ready and build real recall.
III
Track your progress
Your questions, scanned lines, and chat queries are tallied so you can see how much
ground you've covered over time.
About
About CertamenBot
Built by Certamen students, for Certamen students.
CertamenBot is a platform built to make Certamen preparation more efficient and accessible.
The question generator matches the exact style and difficulty curve of real tournament packets.
The chat is grounded in the same sourcebooks writers use. The scansion tool lets you test your
scanning abilities against a corpus of 256k+ verified lines.
Developed by Leo Leger & Bassil Maayah
· Est. June 2025
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