flashcards

  • ibam – I was going

  • forte – by chance

  • via – road, way

  • sacra – sacred, holy

  • sicut – just as, like

  • meus – my

  • est – is

  • mos – custom, habit

  • nescio – I do not know

  • quid – what, something

  • meditans – thinking, pondering

  • nugarum – trifles, nonsense

  • totus – entirely, completely

  • in – in, on

  • illis – them, those things

  • accurrit – he/she/it runs up

  • quidam – a certain (person)

  • notus – known, familiar

  • mihi – to me

  • nomine – by name

  • tantum – only

  • arrepta – having been seized

  • manu – hand

  • quid agis – how are you doing? (lit. "what are you doing?")

  • dulcissime – sweetest, dearest

  • rerum – of things

  • suaviter – pleasantly, sweetly

  • ut – as, so that

  • nunc – now

  • est – is

  • cupio – I desire, I wish

  • omnia – all things, everything

  • quae – which, what

  • vis – you want

  • cum – when, with

  • adsectaretur – he/she/it followed, accompanied

  • numquid vis – do you want something?

  • occupo – I take the initiative, I interrupt

  • at – but

  • ille – he

  • noris – you should know

  • nos – us, we

  • inquit – he/she/it says

  • docti – learned, educated

  • sumus – we are

  • hic – here, this

  • ego – I

  • pluris – of more value

  • hoc – this

  • mihi – to me

  • eris – you will be

  • misere – miserably, desperately

  • discedere – to leave, depart

  • quaerens – seeking, trying

  • ire – to go

  • modo – just, only

  • ocius – more quickly

  • interdum – sometimes

  • consistere – to stop, stand still

  • in aurem – into the ear

  • dicere – to say, speak

  • nescio quid – something (lit. "I don't know what")

  • puero – to the boy

  • cum – when

  • sudor – sweat

  • ad imos – down to the lowest, to the bottom

  • manaret – was dripping, was flowing

  • talos – ankles

  • o – oh

  • te – you

  • Bolane – Bolanus (a name)

  • cerebri – of the brain, of wit

  • felicem – happy, fortunate

  • aiebam – I was saying

  • tacitus – silent, quietly

  • cum – when

  • quidlibet – whatever, anything

  • ille – he

  • garriret – was chattering

  • vicos – streets, districts

  • urbem – city

  • laudaret – he was praising

  • ut – as

  • illi – to him

  • nil – nothing

  • respondebam – I was responding

  • misere cupis – you desperately want

  • abire – to leave

  • iamdudum – for a long time now

  • video – I see

  • sed – but

  • nil agis – you accomplish nothing

  • usque – continuously

  • tenebo – I will hold, I will keep

  • persequar – I will follow

  • hinc – from here

  • quo – where

  • nunc – now

  • iter – journey, path

  • tibi – to you

  • nil opus est – there is no need

  • circumagi – to be led around

  • quendam – a certain (person)

  • volo – I want

  • visere – to visit

  • non tibi notum – not known to you

  • trans Tiberim – across the Tiber

  • longe – far away

  • cubat – lies, is lying down

  • is – he

  • prope – near

  • Caesaris hortos – Caesar’s gardens

  • nil habeo quod agam – I have nothing to do

  • non sum piger – I am not lazy

  • demitto auriculas – I lower my ears

  • ut iniquae mentis asellus – like a stubborn little donkey

  • cum – when

  • gravius – heavier

  • dorso – on the back

  • subiit – he/she/it endured

  • onus – burden, load

  • incipit – he/she/it begins

  • si bene me novi – if I know myself well

  • non Viscum pluris amicum – no friend is more valuable than Viscus

  • non Varium facies – you will not consider Varius more valuable

  • nam – for

  • quis – who

  • me scribere pluris – writes better than me

  • aut citius possit versus – or more quickly compose verses

  • quis membra movere mollius – who moves his limbs more gracefully

  • invidet quod et Hermogenes – even Hermogenes envies that

  • ego canto – I sing

  • interpellandi locus – a place to interrupt

  • hic erat – was here

  • est tibi mater – do you have a mother?

  • cognati – relatives

  • quis te salvo est opus? – who needs you alive?

  • haud mihi quisquam – no one for me

  • omnis composui – I have buried them all

  • felices – fortunate ones

  • nunc ego resto – now I remain

  • confice – finish me off

  • namque – for

  • instat – threatens

  • fatum – fate

  • mihi triste – sad for me

  • Sabella – Sabellian

  • quod puero – which, when I was a boy

  • cecinit – sang, foretold

  • divina mota anus urna – an old woman shook the divine urn