Vocab Grab
English translation of the noun Roma, Romae.
What is Rome?
The 1st declension singular accusative ending.
What is -am?
Featured in Book I of Ovid's Metamorphoses, this unfortunate minor goddess gets turned into a laurel tree.
Who is Daphne?
The mood of the verb salvete.
What is the imperative?
The Roman name of the war-experienced goddess who favored Odysseus.
Who is Minerva?
The infinitive of the passionate verb meaning “to love.”
What is amare?
Often shown through the preposition “of,” the genitive case can express this state.
What is possession?
The Roman poet who is both the lover and hater of Lesbia.
Catullus
The imperfect active indicative verb endings.
What is -bam, -bas, -bat, -bamus, -batis, -bant?
Along with a verb of the senses and an infinitive, the accusative subject is found in this Latin clause.
What is an indirect statement?
A Latin interjection that is literally translated as by Hercules!
What is mehercule?
The form of the ablative case that does not use a preposition and expresses the way in which an action is done.
What is the ablative of means?
Horace's famous collection of poems that comments on and even criticizes aspects of his society.
What are the Satires?
“We fear a liar” is a popular memory trick for remembering the signature vowels of this mood.
What is the subjunctive?
An aspect of Latin grammar that is also known as a verbal noun.
What is a gerund?
English Translation of the motto of Trinity College, Pro Ecclessia et Patria.
What is “For church and country”?
The case used with verbs such as licet, libet, or placet.
What is the dative case?
What is dactylic hexameter?
Nicknamed the “salad subjunctive,” this use of the mood gets its nickname from its common English translation, “let us [verb].”
What is the jussive subjunctive?
The Latin verb that is the root of the English word “candle.”
What is candere?
English translation of caveat emptor.
What is “let the buyer beware”?
The Latin case that expresses location when dealing with cities, towns, or small islands.
What is the locative?
The first sentence of a famous example of an elegiac couplet: Catullus 85.
Ōdī et amō.
The plural imperative form of facio, facere.
What is facite?
What is ausus sum?