Cambridge Latin Course Stage 10
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- controversia
- debate
- rhetor
- a teacher who gave students more advanced lessons in literature and trained his students in the art of public speaking. Rhetors were often highly educated Greeks.
- docebat
- used to teach
- meliores quam
- better than
- minime!
- no!
- sententia
- opinion
- argumentum
- proof
- barbaros
- barbarians
- imperium
- empire
- pacem
- peace
- architecti
- builders, architects
- pontes
- bridges
- ubique
- everywhere
- aedificamus
- build
- maior quam
- bigger than
- postremo
- lastly
- dei
- gods
- dant
- give
- ignavi
- lazy
- deinde
- then
- surrexit
- got up
- miserandi
- pathetic, pitiful
- imitatores
- imitators
- auctores
- creators
- libros
- books
- legitis
- read
- riserunt
- laughed
- Graecum
- Greek
- Graeciores
- more Greek
- fratres
- brothers
- institor
- peddler, street vendor
- ad eos
- to them
- felices
- lucky
- quam!
- how!
- da!
- give!
- dissentiebant
- were arguing
- stultissimi
- very stupid
- retineo
- am keeping
- abierunt
- went away
- in terram
- onto the ground
- deiecit
- threw
- in piscinam
- into the fishpond
- venite huc!
- come here!
- philosophus
- philosopher
- solus
- alone, lonely
- vosne estis contenti?
- are you satisfied?
- artifices
- artists
- praemium
- profit
- susurravit
- whispered, mumbled
- Graeculi
- poor little Greeks
- caupo
- innkeeper
- delevit
- has destroyed
- antiquus
- old, ancient
- in pyramide
- in a pyramid
- clausit
- shut, closed
- eam
- her
- postridie
- (on) the next day
- maritum
- husband
- incendium
- blaze, fire
- ardebat
- was on fire
- infelix
- unlucky
- amisit
- lost
- Aegyptius
- Egyptian
- Neptunus
- Neptune (god of the sea)
- ludi magister
- the title of a teacher at a small school for young children
- paedagogus
- A slave who escorted students to and from school
- tabulae
- wooden tablets
- stilus
- a stick of metal, bone, or ivory used to inscribe letters on the wax surface of a tablet
- grammaticus
- a teacher who ran a secondary school
- abit
- goes away
- accipit
- accepts
- callidus
- clever, smart
- capit
- takes
- contentus
- satisfied
- exclamat
- exclaims
- frater
- brother
- inimicus
- enemy
- invenit
- finds
- it
- goes
- liber
- book
- nos
- we
- nuntiat
- announces
- pax
- peace
- portus
- harbor
- quam
- than, how
- servat
- saves, protects
- tacet
- is silent, is quiet
- vehementer
- violently, loudly
- vos
- you (plural)