Quid Est Epistula?

Verba

The new words of this chapter, as the book glosses them. Keep them, and they come back for review just before you would forget them.

• epistula -ae (f)littera missa
• scrīptor -ōris (m)quī scrībit
• avunculus -ī (m)frāter mātris
• phantasma -atis (n)imāgō mortuī, umbra
• salūtem dīcere“salvē!” dīcere
• salūs -ūtis (f)vīta bona et incolumis
• valeō -ēresānus et fortis sum
• imperātīvus -ī (m)fōrma iubendī
• stilus -ī (m)īnstrūmentum scrībendī
• tabellae -ārum (f)tabulae cērā opertae
• cēra -ae (f)māteria mollis apium
• tabellārius -ī (m)portitor epistulārum
• colligō -eremulta in ūnum congregō
• pūblicō -ārepopulō dō, ēmittō
• mē paenitetdoleō dē factō meō
• obsequium -ī (n)mōs pārendī
• frequentersaepe
• cūrātiusmaiōre cūrā
• requīrō -ereiterum quaerō
• supprimō -ereretineō, cēlō

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Pēnsum

Grammatica

Impersonal paenitet with accusative of person and genitive of cause

nec mē paeniteat obsequiī

The impersonal verb paenitet (it repents, it makes sorry) takes the person who feels in the accusative (mē, tē) and the cause of the feeling in the genitive (obsequiī, cōnsiliī). So Plīnius says 'may I not regret my obedience', literally 'may it not make me sorry of obedience'.