VIRTŪS
Viri Romae Facillimi, caput I · 722 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.
- dea -aegoddess
- sacerdōs -ōtispriest
- pars, partispart, room
- statua -aestatue
- casa -aehut, cottage
- mōns, montishill, mountain
- flūmen -inisriver
- rēx, rēgisking
- oppidum -ītown
- exercitus -ūsarmy
- dēleō -ēreto destroy
- mīles -itissoldier
- dux, ducisleader, general
- pugnō -āreto fight
- vincō -ereto win
- cadō -ereto fall
- fugiō -ereto flee
- arma -ōrumweapons, armor
- portō -āreto carry
- clāmō -āreto shout
- aedificō -āreto build
- pōnō -ereto place
- hostis -isenemy
- lēx, lēgislaw
- manus -ūshand
- proelium -ībattle
- aurum -īgold
- sacer -cra -crumsacred
- gladius -īsword
- capillus -īhair
- mittō -ereto send
- cōnsul -isconsul
- ā puerōfrom boyhood
- equus -īhorse
- plēnus -a -umfull
- nōmen -inisname
- taceō -ēreto be silent
- prōmissum -īpromise
- petō -ereto attack
- intellegō -ereto understand
- nōmineby name
- triumphus -ītriumph
- populus -īthe people
- lapis -idisstone
- scrībō -ereto write
- fābula -aestory
- vīvō -ereto live
- numquamnever
- pauper -erispoor
- iuvenis -isyoung man
- plūs quammore than
- saepeoften
- iterumagain
- vocō -āreto call
- corpus -orisbody
- vulnus -eriswound
- antein front
- praemium -īreward
- accipiō -ereto receive
- trāns mareacross the sea
- itaqueand so
- senex, senisold man
- dēfendō -ereto defend
- relinquō -ereto abandon
- redeō -īreto go back
- fīlius -īson
Lege
Read the chapter. The glosses stand in the margin; point at any other word for its meaning.
Pēnsum
Grammatica
Dative of the indirect object
Rōmulus id Iovī dat
The verb dat ('gives') takes a direct object (id, 'it') and also a dative showing the person who receives it (Iovī, 'to Jupiter'). The dative ending (here -ī) answers the question 'to whom?' or 'for whom?'.
Allen & Greenough § 362 →