# Cambridge Latin Course, Unit 2, Stage 19 # by Ed Phinney et al, ISBN 052134381X # Version 1.0 by Paul Denisowski (paul@denisowski.org) vīvere : live scrīptor : writer tragoedia : tragedy tībīcen : pipe player citharoedus : cithara player expellere : throw out diēs fēstus : festival, holiday cōnfectus : finished vēr : spring assiduē : continually castigāre : scold, nag tolle! : hold up! unde : from where illinc : from there sāne : obviously cōmiter : politely, courteously avidus : eager spargere : scatter tubicen : trumpeter carmen : song dulcīs : sweet īnflāre : blow plānē : clearly sparsus : scattered rosa : rose rārō : rarely sonitus : sound raucus : harsh vīlis : cheap trūdere : push, shove calcāre : step on nocēre : hurt premere : push lēnīre : soothe, calm down puppis : stern corōna : garland, wreath dē mālō : from the mast pendēre : hang pontifex : high priest precēs adhibēbat : offered prayers to iacere : throw rudēns : cable, rope solvere : untie, cast off ventus : wind secundus : favorable, following in altum : towards the open sea impellere : carry implēre : fill solūtus : untied, cast off placidus : calm, peaceful reportāre : carry back ērubēscere : blush haedus : kid, young goat astrologus : astrologer commōtus : alarmed, excited praedium : estate immemor : forgetful Ariēs : the Ram (sign of the zodiac) offendere : displease persuādēre : persuade amulētum : amulet, lucky charm flūmen : river lēniter : gently collēctus : assembled īnstrūctus : drawn up scapha : small boat caedere : kill rīpa : bank dēligātus : tied up, moored palūs : marsh, swamp crocodīlus : crocodile līmōsus : muddy fiēbat : became harundō : reed inicere : thrown in praeceps : headlong fortitūdō : courage perītia : skill Chaldaeī : Chaldeans, an ancient people of Babylon flūmen Nīlus : river Nile Aethopes : Ethiopians hippopotamus : hippopotamus ēvertere : overturn dēpellere : drive off ā servō suō : by his own slave amō, amāre, amāvī : love, like caedō, caedere, cecīdī : kill cārus, cāra, cārum : dear castigō, castigāre, castigāvī : scold, nag cautē : cautiously cōgitō, cōgitāre, cōgitāvī : think, consider comparō, comparāre, comparāvī : obtain cōnficiō, cōnficere, cōnfēcī : finish cūrō, cūrāre, cūrāvī : take care of, supervise dē : from, down from dēfendō, dēfendere, dēfendī : defend dulcis : sweet filia, filiae : daughter fluō, fluere, flūxī : flow forte : by chance grātiās agō : I thank, give thanks illūc : there, to that place iter, itineris : journey, trip locus, locī : place māne : in the morning neglegēns : careless nōvī : I know perīculum, perīculī : danger plūrimus, plūrima, plūrimum : very much pompa, pompae : procession poscō, poscere, poposcī : demand, ask for sonitus, sonitūs : sound stola, stolae : long dress tot : so many umerus, umerī : shoulder vexō, vexāre, vexāvī : annoy vīvō, vīvere, vīxī : live vix : hardly, scarcely vōx, vōcis : voice # end