TEMPUS
Seneca, caput I · 157 words
- IVerba
- IILege
- IIIPēnsum
- IVGrammatica
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.
- vira man
- amīcusa friend
- cārusdear
- nōmena name
- scrībitwrites
- eccelook!
- hōraan hour
- diēsa day
- annusa year
- haec omniaall these
- semperalways
- fugitflees, runs off
- manetstays
- oriturrises
- occiditsets
- iamnow, already
- abiithas gone
- herīyesterday
- crāstomorrow
- nōndumnot yet
- sōlumonly
- pecūniamoney
- meusmy, mine
- adestis here
- abestis away
- agera field
- domusa house
- fortasseperhaps
- aliēnusanother's, not mine
- rēsa thing
- nosterour, ours
- abīreto go away
- possuntare able, can
- ūnus, ūnaone
- vērētruly
- tantumonly (= sōlum)
Lege
Read the chapter. The glosses stand in the margin; point at any other word for its meaning.
Pēnsum
Grammatica
Dative of indirect object
Seneca amīcō suō scrībit.
The dative case marks the person to whom something is written, given or said. Here amīcō suō is dative: Seneca writes to his friend.
Allen & Greenough § 361 →