Apocolocyntosis ch. 15

Question 1

adiūdicō adiūdicāre

Answer 1

to make a judicial award, grant, award, adjudge

Question 2

ālea –ae f.

Answer 2

a game with dice, and in gen.; a game of hazard or chance; chance, hazard

Question 3

appāreō apparēre apparuī apparitūrus

Answer 3

to appear; be evident/visible/noticed/found; show up, occur; serve

Question 4

assiduus –a –um

Answer 4

established, steady

Question 5

audeō audēre ausus sum

Answer 5

to dare

Question 6

colaphus –ī m.

Answer 6

a blow with the fist, cuff, box on the ear

Question 7

collum collī m.

Answer 7

neck; throat; head and neck; severed head; upper stem (flower); mountain ridge

Question 8

culmen –inis n.

Answer 8

a top, summit, height; house top, ridge, roof (cf. columna)

Question 9

digitus digitī m.

Answer 9

finger

Question 10

dīlābor –lāpsus sum

Answer 10

to slip, glide, fall apart; depart, pass away

Question 11

ferula –ae f.

Answer 11

a reed, whip, rod, ferule, staff

Question 12

flagrum, ī, n.

Answer 12

whip

Question 13

fundus fundī m.

Answer 13

base, foundation, farm

Question 14

fūrtum fūrtī n.

Answer 14

theft; trick, deception; stolen article

Question 15

irritus or inritus –a –um

Answer 15

invalid, void

Question 16

lūdō lūdere lūsī lūsus

Answer 16

to play, mock, tease, trick; play with

Question 17

Menander, Menandrī, m.

Answer 17

a (Greek) name; esp. the Greek poet of New Comedy; a freedman of Caligula

Question 18

pondus ponderis n.

Answer 18

weight, burden, impediment

Question 19

refugiō –ere –fugere –fūgī

Answer 19

to flee back, run away

Question 20

Sīsyphius –a –um

Answer 20

of Sisyphus, Sisyphean

Question 21

subdūcō –dūcere –dūxī –ductum

Answer 21

to draw up, raise; remove, take away

Question 22

subitō

Answer 22

suddenly, unexpectedly; at once, at short notice, quickly; in no time at all

Question 23

tālus –ī m. *

Answer 23

anklebone; ankle; * knuckle-bone (counter used in gaming)

Question 24

tangō tangere tetigī tāctus

Answer 24

to touch, strike; border on, influence; mention

Question 25

tessera –ae f. *

Answer 25

a square tablet; a ticket inscribed with the watchword; the watchword or password; * die cube

Question 26

uterque utraque utrumque

Answer 26

which (of two), whichever, no matter which; one, either, one or other; (w/que) each/either (of two); both (separately); each side (pl.), each set

Question 27

vāpulō –āre

Answer 27

to get beaten up, get clobbered.