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Death Of Pliny The Elder Lines 33-68 Flashcards

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Latissimae flammae

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Broad sheets of fire

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Altaque incendia

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And high fires

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Relucebant

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Were blazing

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Quorum fulgor et claritas

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Whose glare and brightness

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Excitabatur

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Was emphasised

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Tenebris noctis

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By the darkness of the night

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In remedium formidinis

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As a cure for terror

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Ille…dictitabat

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He kept saying that

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Ignes…relictos

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The fires had been left

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Agrestium trepidatione

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By the panic of the country folk

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Desertasque villas

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And that deserted houses

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Ardere

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Were burning

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Per solitudinem

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Through the abandoned area

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Se quieti dedit

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He gave himself to rest

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Quievit verissimo quidem somno

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He rested indeed in a very real sleep

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Meatus animae

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The breathing

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Propter

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Because of

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Amplitudinem corporis

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The stoutness of his body

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Illi

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For him

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Sonantior

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Noisier

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Ab eis qui limini obversabantur audiebatur

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Was heard by those who were moving about near the doorway

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Area ex qua

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The courtyard from which

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Cubiculum adibatur

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The bedroom was approached

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Iam…completa

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Having now been filled by

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Cinere mixtisque pumicibus
A mixture of ash and pumice
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Surrexerat
Had risen
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Si longior in cubiculo mora esset
If there was a longer delay in the bedroom
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Exitus
Escape
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Negaretur
Would have been made impossible
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Excitatus
Having been woken up
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Procedit
He proceeded
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Seque...reddit
And he went back (to)
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Pervigilaverant
Had stayed awake all night
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Inter se
Among themselves
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Utrum
Whether
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Intra tecta maneant
To stay inside the buildings
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In aperto vagentur
Roam about in the open
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Crebris ingentibusque tremoribus
With frequent and huge tremors
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Nutabant
Were shaking
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Quasi emota sedibus suis
As if having been torn away from their foundations
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Videbantur
They seemed
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Abire aut referri
To sway forwards and backwards
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Nunc huc nunc illuc
Now this way now that way
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Sub dio
Outside
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Rursus
On the other hand
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Casus pumicum metuebatur
The falling of pumices was feared
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Levium exesorumque
Light and porous
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Quod tamen periculorum collatio elegit
However a comparison of the dangers suggested the latter choice
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Apud illum quidem ratio rationem
In his case the rational argument defeated the rational argument
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Apud ilios
In the case of others
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Timorem timor vicit
Fear defeated fear
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Cervicalia capitibus imposita
Pillows having been placed on their heads
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Constringunt
They tied down
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Linteis
With linen cloth
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Id munimentum...fuit
It was protection
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Contra incidentia
Against the falling objects
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Dies alibi
It was day elsewhere
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Illic
There
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Omnibus noctibus
Than all nights
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Solvebant
Were relieving
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Faces multae
Many torches
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Variaque lumina
Various kinds of lamps
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Placuit egredi in litus
It was pleasing (for them) to go out onto the shore [they decided]
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Ex proximo
From close by
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Adspicere
Investigate
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Nam mare fugam praeberet
Whether the sea was offering an escape
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Adhuc
Still
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Vastum
Swollen
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Adversum
Unfavourable
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In abiecto linteo recumbens
Reclining on a sheet having been thrown down
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Semel atque iterum
Time and time again
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Poposcit
He demanded
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Hausitque
And drank it down
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Flammarumque praenuntius odor sulphuris
And the smell of sulphur the warning signs of flames
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Alios ad fugam vertunt
Turn others to flight
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Excitant illum
They wake him up
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Innitens servis duobus
Leaning on two slaves
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Concidit
Collapsed
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Spiritus
His breathing
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Ut ego credo
As I believe
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Obstructus erat
Had been obstructed
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Densiore caligine
By the denser fumes
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Claususque stomachus
And his windpipe had been blocked
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Qui illi natura
Which for him by nature
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Invalidus
Weak
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Angustus
Narrow
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Saepe aestuans
Often inflamed
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Ubi dies redditus est
When day was restored
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Is ab eo quem novissime viderat tertius
That was the third day from which he had last seen
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Inventum
Was found
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Integrum
Intact
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Inlaesum
Uninjured
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Opertumque ut fuerat indutus
Covered as he had been dressed
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Habitus corporis
The appearance of the body
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Similior
Was more similar
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Dormienti
To someone sleeping
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Quam mortuo
Than to someone dead
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Pluiribus locis
In many places

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