Mīles Quondam et Graecus

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.

• nāscor, nātus sumin mundum veniō
• oriēns -entis (m)pars mundī ubi sōl oritur
• orior -īrīsurgō, incipiō
• Graecēlinguā Graecā
• iuvenis -is (m)inter puerum et senem
• iter, itineris (n)via longa
• saevus -a -umferus, crūdēlis
• necō -āremortem dō
• dēpōnō -erepōnō, iam nōn teneō
• stilus -ī (m)ferrum quō scrībimus
• vērus -a -umnōn falsus
• rēs gestae (f)ea quae facta sunt
• philosophia -ae (f)amor sapientiae
• sapientia -ae (f)scientia vītae rēcta
• discō -erescientiam capiō
• subitōsine morā, statim
• mūtō -ārealium faciō
• initium -ī (n)prīncipium
• pāgina -ae (f)ūna pars librī
• gradātimgradū post gradum
• scālae -ārum (f)per quās ascendimus
• purpura -ae (f)color imperātōrum
• opus, operis (n)id quod factum est
• quondamōlim, tempore praeteritō
• praeteritus -a -umquī iam fuit
• nārrātor -ōris (m)quī fābulam nārrat
• prīncipātus -ūs (m)tempus quō prīnceps imperat
• exōrdior, exōrsusincipiō
• interitus -ūs (m)mors, fīnis vītae
• pereō -īremorior
• ferēpaene, nōn plānē
• saeculum -ī (n)centum annī
• vīrēs -ium (f)potestās corporis et animī
• mēnsūra -ae (f)modus, quantum est
• modestus -a -umquī dē sē parva dīcit
• ēvolvō -ereapertum faciō
• volūmen -inis (n)liber convolūtus
• lēctor -ōris (m)quī legit
• trīstis -enōn laetus
• exstō -āreetiam nunc sum, maneō
• perditus -a -umquī periit
• hērōs -ōis (m)vir fābulae māximus

Lege

Read the chapter. The glosses stand in the margin; point at any other word for its meaning.

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Pēnsum

Grammatica

Ablative of place where (in + ablative)

in urbe Antiochīā nātus est

To say where something happens or where someone is, Latin uses the preposition in with the ablative case. Here urbe and Antiochīā are both ablative, and together they tell us the place where Ammiānus was born.