Vocab
Culture
Gods and Goddesses
Translation
100

Palaestra

What is an exercise ground or meeting place.

100

Roman children used these to write and to write on during school lessons. (two different things)

stylus and wax tablet

100

This is the Roman goddess of love and the mother of Cupid.

Who was Venus?

100

Dama est tabernarius.

Dama is a tavern owner.

200

exspectat

What is waits/is waiting?

200

Odysseus/Ulysses blinded a Cyclops by this name.

Who was Polyphemus?

200

This was the king of the gods who had the symbol of an eagle?

Who was Jupiter?

200

Magister in taberna sedet.

The teacher sits in the tavern.

300
Quoque.

What is also?

300

This volcano buried Herculaneum in 79 CE.

What is Mount Vesuvius?

300

This was the god of medicine and the sun.

Who was Apollo?

300

Statua est fons.

The statue is a fountain.

400
Dormit.

What is sleeps/is sleeping?

400

Roman students learned in a building. True or false.

False.

400

This was the goddess of the harvest and the mother of Proserpina.

Who was Ceres?

400

Ecce! Mater in via dormit.

Look! Mother sleeps in the road.

500

Advenit.

What is arrives/is arriving?

500

These 2 towns were destroyed by a volcano in 79 CE.

What were Pompeii and Herculaneum?

500

This is the god of volcanoes and blacksmiths.

Who was Vulcan?

500

Athleta quoque in palaestra errat.

The athlete also wanders in the exercise grounds.

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