vocabulary
Sail
What is velum?
What were the features of the Minotaur?
Labyrinthus a Daedaelo aedificatus erat.
What is passive voice?
This is the form of "vocavi".
What is active first person singular perfect?
This is where the English word "timid" is derived from.
What is timidus/timere?
Matte black
What is ater?
Why did Minos wish ill on the Athenians?
Because his son was killed a little while before.
ferentem
What is a participle?
This is the form of "redierunt".
What is active third person plural perfect?
This word is where the English word "capillary" is derived from.
What is capillum (technically capillaris)?
Promise
What did Syra compare Ariadne to?
A scared lamb between savage wolves
obliviscor
What is a deponent verb?
This is the form of "ascenderas".
What is active second person singular pluperfect?
This word is where the English word "antique" is derived from.
What is antiquus?
Rocks
Saxa
What do men promise women and then proceed to do?(because men are silly and women are cool and awesome and i'm off topic)
They promise women mountains of gold, then forget their promise and desert them without money?
minotauro occiso
What is an ablative absolute?
This is the form of "petitus sumus".
What is passive first person plural perfect?
This word is where the English word "oblivious" is derived from.
What is obliviscor?
Building
What is aedificium?
What did Aegeus think the colour of the sail meant, and what did he do as a result?
Having thought that the colour signified the death of his son, without delay he threw himself from the rocks into the sea.
locuta
What is the participle of a deponent verb?
This is the form of "rapti eratis".
What is passive second person plural pluperfect?
This word is (allegedly) where the English word "repertoire" is derived from.
What is "reperire"?