# Ecce Romani Student's Book 3 and 4 - Chapter 52 # Longman Publishing, ISBN 0-8013-0440-7# Version 1.0 # by Paul Denisowski (paul@denisowski.org) vitta, -ae, f. : ribbon myrtus, -ī, f. : myrtle laurus, -ī, f. : bay (tree), laurel ōrnō : to decorate albus, -a, -um : white paulō post : a little later āra, -ae, f. : altar sacra, -ōrum, npl. : sacrifice rīte : properly auspex, auspicis, m. : augur, officiating priest dextra, -ae, f. : right hand nova nūpta : bridge nē lāberētur : so she wouldn’t stumble iungō, iungere, iūnxī, iūnctum : to join ardeō, ardēre, arsī : to burn nūbō, nūbere, nūpsī, nūptum : (+D) to marry marītus, -ī, m. : husband mortiferē : mortally, critically eximius, -a, -um : outstanding cārus, -a, -um : dear, beloved fūnus, fūneris, n. : funeral dūxit exsequiās : carried out the funeral rites cum : whenever quid ageret : how he was siccus, -a, -um : dry dēcēdō, dēcēdere, dēcessī, dēcessum : to die quiēscō, quiēscere, quiēvī, quiētum : to rest compōnō, compōnere, composuī, compositum : to compose operiō, operīre, operuī, opertum : to hide, cover castus, -a, -um : virtuous, chaste dē : (+Abl) from viscera, viscerum, npl. : the inner organs of the body, the womb # end