Unit 3: Pliny's Letters: Ghosts and Apparitions, Letters to Trajan and Calpurnia

accido, acicdere, accidi

to fall upon

affirmo, affirmare, affirmavi, affirmatum

to strengthen

albus, alba, album

white, pale

aliqui, aliqua, aliquod

some, any

aliquis, aliquid

someone, anyone

Athenae, Athenarum (f. pl.)

Athens

auris, auris (f)

ear

capillus, capilli (m)

hair

Carthago, Cathaginis (f)

Carthage

catena, catenae (f)

chain

comes, comitis (m)

companion

digitus, digiti (m)

finger

disco, discere, didici

to learn

diu

a long time (adverb)

doceo, docere, docui, doctum

to teach

dormio, domire, dormivi, domitum

to sleep

duco, ducere, duxi, ductum

to lead

emo, emere, emi, emptum

to buy

ferrum, ferri (n)

iron

fides, fidei (f)

trust

fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum

to touch

gero, gere, gessi, gestum

to bear about

haereo, haerere, haesi, haesum

to stick

herba, herbae (f)

grass

honor, honoris (m)

honor

humanus, humana, humanum

of man

igitur

then (conjunction)

imago, imaginis (f)

imitation

implico, implicare, implicavi, implicatum

to enfold

inde

from that place

initium, initi (n)

beginning

intendo, intendere, intendi, intentum

to stretch out

lentus, lenta, lentum

slow

libertus, liberti (m)

freedman

licet, licetere, licuit

is allowed

medium, medii (n)

middle

memoria, memoriae (f)

memory

mens, mentis (f)

mind

monstrum, monstri (n)

divine omen

mos, moris (m)

will

mulier, mulieris (f)

woman

narro, narrare, narravi, narratum

to make known

numen, numinis (n)

nod

obscurus, obscura, obscurum

dark

occurr, occurrere, occurri, occursum

to run to meet, to oppose

ostendo, ostenedere, ostendi, ostentum

to exhibit

pono, ponere, posui, positum

to put down

postquam

after that

prior, prius

former

puer, peri (m)

boy

qua

which side, which place, what direction, where

quis, qua, quid

anyone, anything, someone, something (pronoun)

rogo, rogare, rogavi, rogatum

to ask

scientia, scientiae (f)

knowledge

senex, senis (m)

old man

significo, significare, significavi, significatum

to signify

signum, signi (n)

mark

sive

or if (conjunction)

sonus, soni (m)

noise

stilus, stili (m)

pen

sto, stare, steti, statum

to stand

summus, summa, summum

highest

terribilis, terribile

terrible

tristis, triste

sad

ubique

anywhere (adverb)

vertex, verticis (f)

vortex

vinculum (n)

bond

aetas, aetatis (f)

life of a man

Alexandrinus, Alexandrina, Alexandrinum

Alexandrian

ante

before (preposition/adverb)

appello, appellare, appellavi, appellatum

to call

architectus, architecti (m)

architect

arcus, arcus (m)

arch

autem

but (conjunction)

beneficium, beneficii (n)

favor

civitas, civitatis (f)

city

defendo, defendere, defendi, defensum

to defend

dominus, dominii (m)

master

exercitus, execitus (m)

army

facilis, facile

easy

flumen, fluminis (n0

stream

fortasse

perhaps (adverb)

forum, fori (n)

forum

frustra

in vain (adverb)

genus, genereis

race, descent

Harpocras, Hrpocratis (m)

Greek male name

iatralipta, iatraliptae (m)

doctor

imperator, imperatoris (m)

commander

itaque

and so (conjunction)

ius, iuris (n)

right, justice, law

leo, leonis (m)

lion

liberta, libertae (f)

freedwoman

mille (pl. milia) (n)

a thousand

mitto, mittere, misi, missum

to send

mollis, molle

yielding

notus, nota, notum

known

paene

nearly (adverb)

par, paris

equal

patrona, patronae (f)

patroness

paucus, pauca, paucum

few