vocabularia
cras is to Saturday as heri is to _______.
What is Thursday?
Mare Nostrum, to Ancient Romans
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
We very much frighten all the messengers
The social status of most gladiators
What is enslaved/prisoner/criminal?
The number of bathhouses found in Pompeii
Quid est quinque?
What am I saying if I tell you "legite tacite"
(legite = read)
Read quietly!
The Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps into Italy with 37 elephants
Who was Hannibal?
postulo te libros ferre!!!
(libros = books)
I demand you to bring your books!!!
A type of spectacle put on in which bestiarii would fight wild animals (bestiae) in the arena
What is a venatio?
Where exercising would occur at the baths
quid est palaestra?
If someone is lachrymose, how are they feeling?
Sad/tearful/weepy
This region of Italy
What is Tuscany?
ad silvas prope Romam reveniebant
They were returning to the forests near Rome
What are murmillones et retiarii?
A modern equivalent for the apodyterium
What is a changing room/locker room?
Translate ostendistis
Y'all showed
This sea, east of Italy
What is the Adriatic Sea?
hospitibus nihil tulit!
she brought nothing for the guests!
The enslaved gladiator who escaped captivity and led a rebellion campaign in Italy, ultimately defeated by the Roman General Crassus
Who was Spartacus?
The name of the scrapers used to remove oil and dirt from the body
What are strigiles?
Name 3/5 of the irregular superlative adjectives (Latin & English)
pessimus = worst
plurimus = most
maximus = biggest
minimus = smallest
optimus = best
The name of this island
What is Crete?
mortuisne leonibus lacrimas?
Do you cry for the dead lions?
The name for a staged naval battle, in which flat-bottomed ships were used. These would be presented in a human-dug lake, though for a time in Rome they would flood the Colosseum to present these spectacles.
What is naumachia?
The heating system used in bathhouses, some private homes, also found in England
What is hypocaust?