lucretius vocab

decuit

it was fitting, from decet

intus

within

aptum

fitted with

nervis

muscle

viscera

guts, innards

novitas

strangeness

labi

infection

more

in the manner of, from mos

vulgivago

wandering

lustra

period of time

quisquam

anyone

molirier

to toil, archaic added er

virgulta

saplings, seeds

decidere

cut down

falcibus

scythe

dederant

gave (pluperf)

glamdiferas

acorn bearing

quercus

oak

plerumque

for the most part, in general

arbuta

strawberries

puniceo

dark red

aquai

water gen singular

decursus

downflow

late

widely

citat

hastens

sitentia

thirsty

saeclum

generation

silvestria

forest

lubrica

waters

proluvie

overflow

stillantia

dripping

muscus

moss

scatere

to bubble

partim

bit by bit

tractare

manage, handle

nemora

groves

frutices

shrubs

squalida

dirty

verbera

lashings

impensa

heavy

mutua

shared, mutual

conciliabat

reconcile, call together

glandes

acorns

pira

pear

lecta

chosen

consectabantur

they sought, pursued

fretus, a, um +abl

reliant upon

clava

club

latebris

in hiding places

sus, suis

pig

saetigeris

bristle bearing

pares

equal to

involventes

rolling

plangore

with grief, wailin g

palantes DEPONENT

wandering

respectabant

looked until

sepulti

buried

face

torch

gigno

produce

infestam

hostile

miseris

dangerous for them

eiecti

thrown out, ejected

spumigeri

foam bearing

intempesta

dark, untimely

instrata

strewn, thrown over, from insterno

nimio

excessively

linquebant

they left, from relinquo

praebebat

offered

deprensus

captured

haustus

bites, from haurio = consume

busto

tomb

viscera

guts

servarat

syncopated pluperfect from servarerat

tetra

foul

adeso

consumed, bitten

accibant

they hurried, hastened

privarant + abl

sync plprf from privo = deprive

vermina

stomachache

donique

until, from donec

expertis

having no part in

opis

of help

temere

rashly

lidebant

crush

turbida

whirling

pellacia

noose

pellicere

to ensnare

subdola

sneaky, tricky

caeca

blind

improba

wicked

languentia

lazy

mersat

sink, overwhelm, from mergo/merso

inprudentes

being unaware, ignorant

vergebant

they poured, inclined for themselves

sollertius

more craftily

concessit

went together

curavit

brought about, achieved

alsia

cold

tegmine

covering, canopy

fregere

sync perf they broke, from frango

blanditiis

flatteries, charms