CORE VOCABULARY
tabula, -ae, f., board, plank; tablet, writing-tablet; writing, record, memorandum, account; picture, painting. tabulae pūblicae, public records.
pictas paint, draw; depict, portray;
innumerābilis, -e, [in- + numerābilis], adj., countless, innumerable.
opīnor, -ārī, -ātus sum, 1, dep., be of the opinion, suppose; conjecture, imagine, think, judge.
furatus steal; plunder;
non numquam sometimes;
emō, emere, ēmī, ēmptum, 3, a., buy, purchase.
Achāia, -ae, [Ἀχαία], f., Achāia, a Roman province, comprising all of Greece except Thessaly. See n. to p. 130, 4.
Asia, -ae, [Ἀσία], f., Asia, usually referring to Asia Minor.
Pamphȳlia, -ae, [Παμφῡλία], f., Pamphȳlia, a narrow country on the south coast of Asia Minor, bounded on the east by Cilicia, on the north by Pisidia, and on the west by Lycia.
sūmptus, -ūs, [sūmō], m., expenditure, expense, cost, outlay. sūmptum facere, to be at an expense, to make an expenditure.
lēgātiō, -ōnis, [lēgō], f., embassy, legation.
mercātor, -ōris, [mercor, trade], m., trader, merchant, dealer.
dīligenter, comp. dīligentius, sup. dīligentissimē, [dīligēns], adv., with painstaking, carefully, diligently, attentively; faithfully.
digessi distribute; arrange;
quoad [quō + ad], adv., as for as, till, until; as long as, while.
opīniō, -ōnis, [opīnor], f., opinion, supposition, conjecture, expectation. praeter opīniōnem, contrary to expectation, opīniōne celerius, sooner than was expected.
Antōnius, -a, name of a Roman gens of which there were several distinguished members. The one most frequently mentioned is M. Antōnius, -ī, Mārcus Antōnius, Mark Antony, whom Cicero attacked in his Philippic orations.
vērum [vērus], adv., truly; but in truth, but notwithstanding, but, however, still. nōn modo — vērum, not only — but. nōn modo — vērum etiam, not only — but also.
rīdiculus, -a, -um, [rīdeō], adj., laughable, amusing; absurd, ridiculous, contemptible.
quod [acc. neut. of quī], conj., that, in that, the fact that; because, since, inasmuch as; in view of the fact that, as regards the fact that, wherein; so far as, to the extent that.
postulō, -āre, -āvī, -ātum, 1, a., ask, request; demand, require, claim, desire.
Mārcus, -ī, abbreviated M., m., Mārcus, a common Roman forename; our Mark.
Terentium M. Terentius, consul in 73 B.C. with C. Cassius.
Gāius, -ī, abbreviated C., m., Gāïus, a Roman forename.
Cassius, -a, name of a prominent Roman gens. Four Cassiī are mentioned in this book; (1) L. Cassius Longīnus, a competitor of Cicero for the consulship for 63 B.C.; afterwards prominent in the conspiracy of Catiline, in which he asked to be assigned the burning of Rome as his part. He also conducted negotiations with the Allobroges, but escaped arrest. His fate is unknown. Cat. III. iv. et seq. (2) C. Cassius Longīnus, originator of the conspiracy against the life of Caesar; defeated by Antony in the first engagement at Philippi, B.C. 42, and killed by one of his freedmen at his own request. Ep. xxxiii. (3) Q. Cassius Longīnus, tribune of the people B.C. 49. He commenced public life as a quaestor of Pompey in Spain, but in the Civil War he held a command under Caesar in the same country. Ep. xix. (4) C. Cassius Longīnus Vārus, consul B.C. 73, proconsul in Cisalpine Gaul the following year. Imp. P. xxiii.
dēsistō, -sistere, -stitī, -stitum, [dē + sistō], 3, n., leave off, cease, desist from.