Ecce Romani Chapters 17 + 18

Question 1

Undecimus

Answer 1

eleventh

Question 2

caelum

Answer 2

sky

Question 3

advesperascit

Answer 3

it gets dark

Question 4

aedificium

Answer 4

building

Question 5

caupona

Answer 5

inn

Question 6

pernocto, pernoctare

Answer 6

to spend the night

Question 7

caupo

Answer 7

innkeeper

Question 8

periculosus

Answer 8

dangerous

Question 9

graecus

Answer 9

greek

Question 10

custodio,

Answer 10

to guard

Question 11

sum, esse

Answer 11

to be

Question 12

posum, posse

Answer 12

to be able

Question 13

ire

Answer 13

to go

Question 14

ferre

Answer 14

to bring or carry

Question 15

volo, velle

Answer 15

to want

Question 16

nolo, nelle

Answer 16

to not want

Question 17

praecurro, praecurrere

Answer 17

to run ahead

Question 18

homo

Answer 18

man

Question 19

se praecipitant

Answer 19

they hurl themselves

Question 20

fugio, fugere

Answer 20

to flee

Question 21

manum

Answer 21

hand

Question 22

hi canes

Answer 22

these dogs

Question 23

modo

Answer 23

only

Question 24

cauda, ae

Answer 24

tail

Question 25

apparuit

Answer 25

appears

Question 26

obesus

Answer 26

fat

Question 27

revocavit

Answer 27

called back

Question 28

pernocotaverunt

Answer 28

have spent the night

Question 29

olim

Answer 29

once

Question 30

legatus

Answer 30

envoy

Question 31

quid agis?

Answer 31

how are you

Question 32

mehercule

Answer 32

by hercules

Question 33

nisi erro

Answer 33

unless i am mistaken

Question 34

agnosco, agnoscere

Answer 34

to recognize

Question 35

doleo, dolre

Answer 35

to be sad

Question 36

Horatius Cocles

Answer 36

During war with the Etruscans, instructed others to destroy the bridge to Rome while he held back the army. He was able to hold them off until the last bridge had fallen and then jumped into the TIber and swam to Rome.

Question 37

Mucius Scaevola

Answer 37

Infiltrated the Etruscan camp to kill the king. He saw two people dressed importantly and did not know which one was the king, and guessed wrong. The king threatened to burn him alive and Mucius stuck his hand into the fire and he did not feel any pain, so the king sent him back to Rome.

Question 38

Cloelia

Answer 38

Was a hostage. Led herself and a group of girls to swim across the Tiber to safety. The Etruscan king demanded that she be returned, only to grant her and other hostages freedom. After this the war ended.

Question 39

Cincinnatus

Answer 39

458 BC. The Aequi surrounded the Romans, and their commander a consul. Cincinnatus was named dictator, and the next day he ordered every citizen of military age to go with him to attack the Aequi by surrounding them with two troops. After this he resigned and went back to his farm.