Horace, Satire 1.10.40-55

Question 1

argūtus –a –um

Answer 1

clear; shrewd, clever; clear–sounding; melodious; whistling, rattling, whizzing

Question 2

meretrix meretricis f.

Answer 2

prostitute

Question 3

Dāvus -ī m.

Answer 3

Davus, a typical male slave name

Question 4

Chremēs –ētis m. (voc. Cremē)

Answer 4

Chremes (a name)

Question 5

ēlūdō ēlūdere ēlūsī ēlūsus

Answer 5

to make sport of, mock

Question 6

cōmis –e

Answer 6

courteous, affable, kind, obliging, friendly, loving; elegant, cultured

Question 7

garriō garrīre garrīvī or garriī garrītum

Answer 7

to chatter, prate, prattle, chat

Question 8

Fundānius -a -um

Answer 8

Fundanius (a Roman name)

Question 9

Polliō –ōnis m.

Answer 9

a Roman cognomen, e.g., of C. Asinius Pollio

Question 10

percutiō percutere percussī percussum

Answer 10

to hit, strike

Question 11

epos (no genitive) n.

Answer 11

epic poetry

Question 12

Varius –iī m.

Answer 12

Varius; L. Varius, a tragic poet, contemporary with Virgil and Horace

Question 13

mollis molle

Answer 13

soft (cushion/grass); flexible; mild, tolerable; easy; calm; weak; cowardly; unmanly; pathic; tender (women/youths); peaceful; kindly; impressionable

Question 14

adnuō –ere –nuī (ūtus –rare)

Answer 14

to nod to; with dat., acc. and dat., and infin.; ascent, consent; promise; direct, permit

Question 15

Camēna –ae f.

Answer 15

prophetic nymphs of Ancient Italy, frequently associated with the Muses

Question 16

experior experīrī expertus sum

Answer 16

to test; try; experience

Question 17

frūstrā

Answer 17

in vain; for nothing, to no purpose

Question 18

Varrō –ōnis m.

Answer 18

Varro (a name)

Question 19

Atacīnus -a -um

Answer 19

Atacinus, of the river Atax (in Gallia Narbonensis); a Roman cognomen

Question 20

fluō fluere flūxī fluxus

Answer 20

to flow, stream; emanate, proceed from; fall gradually

Question 21

lutulentus –a –um

Answer 21

muddy; filthy, dirty, vile:

Question 22

quidem

Answer 22

moreover, certainly (emphasizing one statement with reference to another)

Question 23

reprehendō reprehendere reprehendī reprehēnsus

Answer 23

to hold back, seize, catch; blame

Question 24

Homērus –ī m.

Answer 24

Homer

Question 25

cōmis –e

Answer 25

courteous, affable, kind, obliging, friendly, loving; elegant, cultured

Question 26

tragicus –a –um

Answer 26

of tragedy, tragic

Question 27

Lūcīlius –ī m.

Answer 27

Lucilius, a male gentile name; Gaius Lucilius, the satirist

Question 28

Accius –iī m.

Answer 28

L. Accius, (b. 170 BC) the most famous of the Latin tragedians of the Republic whose style was later considered high–flown and bombastic

Question 29

Ennius –iī m.

Answer 29

Q. Ennius, (239–169 BC) a famous early writer of Latin historical epic