Latin Prose Composition style points

informed

certior factus est

immediately

continuo

be certain

pro certo habere

although

quamquam

however

tamen (2nd word in sentence)

boundary

fines

alarmed

commotus

he/she/it said

inquit

seek/make for/attack

peto, petere

his men

suis

attack

impetum facere

took heart

animis refectis

restored the soldiers' courage

virtum militibus reddidit

in a short time

brevi tempore

mistreated

male habere

therefore

igitur (2nd word in sentence)

for

enim, nam (2nd word in sentence)

offguard

incauti

made a journey

iter fecit

from where

unde

from there

inde

from here

hinc

calmly

aequo animo

only

neminem nisi

whatever fate brought

quicquid fato allatum est

get possession of/acquire

potior

to serve as a soldier

milito

further

diutius, longius, ulterius

used to

soleo + infinitive

name

cognomen, vocabulum

granted

decrevit

foretell

provideo

he would be killed

futurum esse, fore ut necaretur

secretly

furtim

afraid

veritus

was carried

vectus est

a few days later

paucis post diebus

he was driven off course

e cursu deiecta/deflexa est

do sacred games

ludos agere/facere

by throwing the discus

disco iaciendo

throwing

coniciens

further than any of the other men

longissime omnium iuvenum

descended

dimissus

struck

percussit

was shocked to...

attonitus + verb

he was not knowing

ignorabat/nesciebat

killed

occidit

used to follow

sequi soleret

eager to

studiosus/cupidus + genitive gerund/gerundive

followed

persequeretur

win

victoriam reportare/referre

was stopped

prohibitus est

hold a sword

gladium stringere

speaking in Latin

Latine loquens, verbis Latinis usa

chosen as

conscriptus

to his army

ad suos

leading men

principes, primores

burial

elatum

forever

in perpetuum

ask

peterent, poscerent

richest

divitissimam

when he arrived there

quo cum advenisset

so much

tanto

bring under control

in potestam redigere

boarded

conscendit, ascendit

set sail

navem solvere, vela dare

often

totiens

men

milites, copiae

cruelty

crudelitas

nor was that the end

nec ea fuit finis

hostile

infesta

against him

in eum

on display

exemplo

to join them

in societatum secum inirent

armed

armatorum

unanimously

una voce, una, ad unum

which of them

ex eis

punish

poenas dare

deserved

merito, iuste

broke through

perrupit

imprisoned

in vincula coniecerant

withdraw

recipere

with a menacing cry

minaci clamore

and promptly killed their captors

et eos qui illos ceperant statim necavit

have in mind

in animo habere

march

contendere

warlike

bellicosus

if not

si minus

ancient

priscus

at full gallop

concitato equo

they say that...

ferunt

warship

navis longa

cargo ship

navis oneraria

stretch, extend, aim for, march

tendo, tendere, tentendi, tensum

all the way to, right up to

usque ad + acc.

lead a life

vitam agere

to wonder at

in animo volvere

advance in battle/attack

signa movere/inferre

waste time

tempus terere

spend time

tempus agere