Characters
The man Aemilia loved before Iulius.
Who is Crassus Dives?
The opposite of dives.
What is pauper?
The cloud from the eruption looked like this.
What is a pine tree?
The word umbrella is a diminutive made from this Latin word.
What is umbra? (shade)
The tense of verbs like amabat and pulsabamini.
What is imperfect?
The character who carried a small book on the ship.
Who is Lydia?
Magister docet et discipulus __________.
What is discit?
Recent DNA testing on the remains in the plaster casts of two embracing figures has shown that they are both ________.
What are men?
Fluctuate is from this Latin noun.
What is fluctus? (wave)
The case the shows possession.
What is the genitive case?
Avunculus Marci Quinti Iuliaeque est.
Who is Aemilius?
The Latin word for octo + decem
What is duodeviginti?
Pliny and his mother were in this city during the eruption.
What is Misenum?
To deride, or mock, comes from this Latin verb.
What is ridere/ridet?
The typical ending of comparative adjectives.
What is -ior?
Inquit: "Tam stultus ac tam piger es quam asinus!"
Who is Diodorus?
A synonym for possidere.
What is habere?
This made Pliny the Elder decide to go and help.
What is a letter from a friend?
What is dexter, meaning right?
The case that goes with the preposition circum.
What is the accusative case?
Est bonus discipulus.
Who is Sextus?
What is peior?
Translation of Pliny the Elder's action: Egrediebatur domo.
What is "he set sail from (his) home"?
Ameliorate is from the Latin word that means _________.
What is better? (melior)
The present active participle formed from the verb amo (in the nominative case).
What is amans?