Characters
The first character we read about in Ecce Romani.
Who is Cornelia?
A locket that was thought to protect against evil
What is a bulla?
urban
What is urbs / city?
dormīre
What is the infinitive?
The Iliad and Odyssey were two epic poems composed by this Greek poet (not the Simpsons character)
Who is Homer?
The meaning of "scribit"?
What is he/she/it writes?
Amica Corneliae quae in villa vicina habitat.
Who is Flavia?
A long t-shirt-like garment that all Romans wore
What is a tunic / tunica?
infirm
What is infirmus / weak?
Marcum
What is accusative case / or direct object?
Three of the five major Romance languages
What are French, Spanish, Italian, Rumanian, and Portuguese?
The meaning of "sumus"
What is "we are"?
This character comes from Britannia
Who is Davus?
A married woman's dress
What is a stola?
cadence
What is cadere / to fall?
Salve, porce!
What is the vocative (case)?
This English word, also the name of a podcast company, comes from the Latin "audire," and means "able to be heard"
What is audible?
The Romans believed they were descended from Aeneas the son of this goddess of love
Who is Venus / Aphrodite?
The town where Sextus used to live
What is Pompeii?
A piece of cloth that women wore draped over their shoulders and around the body
What is a palla?
What is ramus / branch?
Marcus
What is nominative (case) / or subject?
Mt Vesuvius erupted and destroyed Pompeii in this year
What is 79 (AD/CE)?
Latin's three grammatical genders
What are masculine, feminine, and neuter / neither?
Marcus's age
What is 16?
What is a toga praetexta?
villain
What is villa / country house?
The technical term for a group of Latin nouns with the same set of endings
What is declension?
This author's Latin epic poem, entitled the Aeneid, begins with the words, "Arma virumque cano" -- "I sing of arms and a man"
Who is Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro)?
Cornelius's first name
What is Gaius?