Odes 1.3 Sic te diva potens Flashcards by William Turpin

abscīdō –ere –cīdī –cīsus

to cut off (> abs and caedo)

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Acherōn –ontis m.

the Acheron, a river of Hades; the lower world

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Acroceraunium –iī n.

a rocky promontory Epirus extending into the Adriatic; usually plural

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āēr āeris m.

air (one of 4 elements); atmosphere, sky; cloud, mist, weather; breeze; odor

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aes aeris n. (acc. sing. aera or aerem)

copper/bronze/brass, base metal; money, pay, fee, fare; (w/alienum) debt; gong

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aetherius –a –um

pertaining to the upper air; ethereal, heavenly; airy (> aether)

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alius alia aliud

other, another

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anima animae f.

a breeze or breath of air; the air; wind or blast of the bellows; breath (of life); soul

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aquilō –ōnis m.

the north wind

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arbiter –trī m.

arbiter, judge

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arduus –a –um

steep, difficult

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Atticus –a –um

of or pertaining to Attica or Athens, Attic, Athenian

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audāx

bold, daring; courageous; reckless, rash; audacious, presumptuous; desperate

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circā

around, all around; round about; near, in vicinity/company; on either side (adv. and prep. +acc.)

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cohors cohortis f.

court; enclosure/yard/pen, farmyard; attendants, retinue, staff; circle; crowd;cohort, tenth part of legion (360 men); armed force; band; ship crew; bodyguard

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committō committere commīsī commīssus *

to bring together, unite, join, connect, attach; put together, construct; entrust; engage (battle), set against; begin, start; bring about; commit; incur; forfeit

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corripiō corripere corripuī correptum *

to seize, plunder; censure, rebuke, find fault with; hasten over; gradum corripere = hurry

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J** crēdō crēdere crēdidī crēditus **

to trust, believe (+ dat.); entrust

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Cyprus (Cypros) –ī f.

Cyprus, a large island in the Eastern Mediterranean

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Daedalus –ī m.

Daedalus, the father of Greek sculpture, supposed to be of the time of Minos and Theseus, employed by Minos to build the Cretan Labyrinth

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** dēbeō dēbēre dēbuī dēbitus **

to owe; ought

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decertō decertāre decertāvī decertātus

to fight/contend with

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dīmidium dīmidiī n.

half

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dissociābilis –e

irreconcilable, incompatible; separating

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dīva –ae f.

a goddess

experior experīrī expertus sum

to test; try; experience

febris febris f.

fever

fragilis –e

easily broken, brittle, fragile

frāter frātris m.

brother

fraus fraudis f.

fraud; trickery, deceit; imposition, offense, crime; delusion

fretum fretī n.

straight, channel; (sing. or pl. by metonymy) the sea

fulmen fulminis n.

lightening, thunderbolt

gradus gradūs m.

step; position

Hadria –ae f.

the Adriatic Sea

Helena –ae f.

Helen, daughter of Jupiter and Leda, sister of Clytemnestra and of Castor, and wife of Menelaus

Herculeus –a –um

of Hercules; Herculean (> Hercules)

homō hominis m.

human being, man; in pl., people

hūmānus –a –um

human; kind; humane, civilized, refined [~ hostiae => human sacrifice]

Hyades –um f. or Hyās –adis f.

the Hyades, a group of seven stars in the constellation Taurus

Īapetus –ī m.

Iapetus, a Titan, son of Uranos and Gaia; the father of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus,

Iāpyx –ygis

Iapygian, Apulian, the wind blowing from Iapygia; Iapyx, the N.W. wind

impius –a –um

disloyal, wicked

incolumis incolumis incolume

unharmed, uninjured; alive, safe; unimpaired

incumbō –ere –cubuī –cubitus

to lay one's self upon; lean or recline upon; (w. dat.), lie on or stretch over; fall upon; bend to, ply; hasten, urge, press on; overhang; press or bend toward; (w. ad and acc.), lean, hang, incline; bear down on (in a military or sexual sense)

īnfāmis īnfāmis īnfāme

infamous

īnferō īnferre intulī inlātus (illātus)

to bring/carry in, import; advance, bring/march/step/move foward; impel, urge; inflict/cause/inflict/impose/inspire (w/DAT); [bellum inferre => make war on]; put/throw/thrust in/on, insert; bury/inter; pay; charge as expense; append

ipse ipsa ipsum

himself, herself, itself (intensive); very

īrācundus –a –um

irascible, irritable, passionate, choleric, angry, ireful, easily provoked

labor labōris m.

work; effort, hardship

lētum letī n.

death

lūcidus –a –um

bright, shining, gleaming, glittering; clear (> luceo)

maciēs –ēī f.

emaciation, leanness; ghastliness

mortālis –e

subject to death, mortal; of mortal nature, lineage, or descent; earthly, human; made by man, mortal; subst., mortales, ium, c., mortals, men, mankind; mortalia, ium, n., human affairs; fortunes, woes (> mors)

necessitās necessitātis f.

need/necessity; inevitability; difficult straits; poverty; obligation; bond

nēquīquam

in vain

nihil or nīl n.

nothing

Notus –ī m.

identical in meaning with auster, the south–wind, wind, storm

* obstringō –ere –strīnxī –strictum *

to bind, hamper

Ōceanus –ī m.

Oceanus

oculus oculī m.

eye

pectus pectoris n.

chest, breast; heart

pelagus pelagī m.

sea, ocean

penna pennae f.

wing, feather

* perpetior –petī –pessus sum *

to bear to the end, endure

* perrumpō –ere –rūpī –ruptus *

to break, burst through

* petō petere petiī/petīvī petītus *

to ask for, seek; attack; make for, go towards

*** pōnō pōnere posuī positus ***

to put, place; set aside; lend (money) out (at interest)

post

after(ward), later; behind (+ acc.)

praeceps praecipitis

plunging head-foremost, falling; headlong; rushing (of winds etc.)

prīmus –a –um

first, foremost, best, chief, principal; nearest, next; [in primus = especially]

prius

earlier, preceding, before; in preference, to, rather

prūdēns –entis

aware, acting deliberately, open-eyed; prudent, clever, wise

rabiēs –em –ē f.

madness, frenzy, fury, fierceness; of inanimate things

* reddō reddere reddidī redditus *

to return; restore; deliver; hand over, pay back, render, give back; translate; reproduce, render; repeat

* regō regere rēxī rēctus *

to rule, control, guide; manage, direct

rōbur rōboris n.

oak, strength

scopulus –ī m.

a projecting ledge of rock; a high cliff or rock; crag; ledge, reef; detached rock, fragment of rock

sēmōtus –a –um

distant

servō servāre servāvī servātus

to save, preserve

sīc

thus, so, in this way, in such a way

stultitia –ae f.

stupidity

subdūcō –dūcere –dūxī –ductum

to draw up, raise; remove, take away

tamen

nevertheless

tardus –a –um

slow, limping; deliberate; late

trānsiliō –īre –īvī (–iī or –uī)

to leap over; pass over; fly through (> trans and salio)

triplex –icis

threefold, triple

trīstis trīstis trīste

sad, sorrowful; gloomy

trux trucis

wild, rough, hard, harsh, savage, fierce, ferocious, grim, stern

turbidus –a –um

confused; mingled, foul; dismal, dark; whirling; of the mind, sad, troubled; startled, in alarm; furious (> turbo)

vadum –ī n.

a ford; a shallow, shoal; sand–bank; shallow water; bottom, depth; water, tide, stream; water of the sea; wave, sea

Vergilius (Virgilius) –iī m.

Vergil

*** volō velle voluī ***

to be willing, want, wish; mean, signify

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