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ō: interjection, expressing grief, pleasure, indignation, or adjuration

colōnia colōniae f.: a colony; name of a town

pōns pontis m.: bridge

lūdō lūdere lūsī lūsus: play

saliō salīre saluī saltus: jump, leap; mount for sexual intercourse

ineptus –a –um: foolish, gauche, awkward

crūs –ūris n.: leg

ponticulus –ī m.: bridge (dim. of pons)

assula –ae f. (diminutive of axis –is m.): board, plank (dim. of axis)

redivīvus –a –um: reused, second-hand

supīnus –a –um: lying on the back; facing upwards; flat; helpless

cavus –a –um: hollow; deep

palūs –ūdis f.: swamp

recumbō –ere –cubuī: recline; settle

Salisubsalus, –i m.: a cult title for an unknown deity, possibly of Mars 6

sacrum sacrī n.: a sacred object or observance, rite

rīsus –ūs m.: laugh

mūniceps –ipis m.: citizen of a municipium; townsman

praeceps praecipitis: plunging headfirst; headlong; sudden

lūtum lutī n.: mud

vērum: adversative conj., assenting to what has been said but adding a qualification: but in fact, but, actually

lacus lacūs m.: lake 10

pūtidus –a –um: rotten; foul, stinking

līvidus –a –um: a dull, grayish-blue color

profundus –a –um: deep, bottomless

vorāgō –inis f.: a deep hole or watery chasm

insulsus –a –um: witless, stupid

sapiō sapere sapivī: have a taste; have taste, sense, discernment

instar n.: (indecl.): the equivalent or equal; adverbial w/ gen., to the extent (of)

bīmulus –a –um: two years old (dim. of bimus)

tremulus –a –um: shaky, trembling; shaking (voluntarily, as one dandling an infant)

ulna –ae f.: forearm, esp. the crook of the arm

viridis –e: green

nūbō nūbere nūpsī nūptum: get married

tenellulus –a –um: soft, tender, delicate; romantically tender (with ref. to love poetry) (dim. of tener) 15

dēlicātus –a –um: given to luxury or pleasure; pampered; frisky, wanton, frivolous; elegant

haedus –ī m.: a young goat, kid

adservō adservāre adservāvī adservātus: keep safe, guard

dīligēns –ntis: comp. more carefully

ūva –ae f.: a bunch of grapes

pilus –ī m.: a hair; something of no value or significance

sublevō sublevāre sublevāvī sublevātus: raise, lift

alnus –ī f.: an alder tree

fossa –ae f.: ditch

Ligus –uris: Ligurian; from Liguria, in NW Italy

suppernātus –a –um: having the leg cut from below; hamstrung; (transf,) felled

secūris secūris f.: axe

tantundem: just as much 20

usquam: anywhere

stupor –oris m.: numbness, lethargy, paralysis, torpor; by metonymy, an insensate person, clod

prōnus –a –um: leaning forward, angling or sloping toward the ground; sloping; face down, prone; flat

stolidus –a –um: dull, stupid, inert

repente or repens: suddenly, immediately

excitō excitāre excitāvī excitātus: rouse, wake; stir up, arouse, excite

veternus –ī m.: torpor, senility

dērelinquō dērelinquere dēreliquī dērelīctus: leave behind 25

caenum –ī n.: mud, filth, slime

ferreus –a –um: made of iron; hard, harsh; shameless, brazen

solea –ae f.: sandal

tenāx –ācis: clinging, tenacious

mūla –ae f.: a she mule