CORE VOCABULARY
praedicō, -āre, -āvī, -ātum, [prae + dicō], 1, a. and n.: proclaim, announce; relate, declare openly, assert; praise, boast. ut praedicās, as you assert.
quantus, -a, -um, adj., inter.: how great? how much? rel., as great as, as much as. tantus — quantus, as great as, as much as.
mīlitia, -ae, [mīles], f.: military service, warfare, service, war; by metonymy, soldiery.
fēlīcitās, -ātis, [fēlīx], f.: good fortune, good luck, success.
adsentiō, -īre, adsēnsī, adsēnsum, [ad + sentiō], 4, n., also dep., adsentior, -īrī, adsēnsus sum: give assent, approve, agree with, agree to.
obtemperō, -āre, -āvī, -ātum, [ob + temperō], 1, n.: comply, conform, submit, obey.
oboediō, -īre, -īvī, -ītum, [ob + audiō], 4, n.: hearken, listen; give heed to, obey, yield obedience, be subject.
obsecundō, -āre, -āvī, -ātum, [ob + secundō], 1, n.: be favorable, comply with, humor, accommodate.
impudēns, -entis, [in- + pudēns], adj.: without sense of shame, shameless, indecent, impudent.
immortālis, -e, [in- + mortālis], adj.: undying, immortal; endless, eternal, imperishable.
quot, indecl. adj.: how many?
Gnaeus, -ī, abbreviated Cn., m.: Gnaeus, a Roman forename.
Pompēius, -a: name of a plebeian gens. The most distinguished person bearing the name was Cn. Pompēius Māgnus, born Sept. 30, B.C. 106. He was victorious over the pirates and over Mithridates, was a member of the first triumvirate, and was killed in Egypt, whither he had fled for refuge, after the battle of Pharsalia, Sept. 29, B.C. 48.
Quirītēs, -ium, [Curēs, an ancient town of the Sabines], m., pl.: originally people of Cures; after the union of the Sabines with the Romans, Roman citizens, Quirītēs; sometimes in sing., Quirīs, -ītis, a Roman citizen, Quirite.