Ars Poetica 79-98

Question 1

Archilochus –ī m.

Answer 1

Archilochus of Paros, Greek iambic poet (7th cent BCE)

Question 2

proprius –a –um

Answer 2

one’s own

Question 3

rabiēs –em –ē f.

Answer 3

madness

Question 4

iambus iambī m.

Answer 4

iambic foot

Question 5

soccus –ī m.

Answer 5

a loose, low-heeled shoe, worn by comic actors

Question 6

cothurnus (coturnus) –ī m.

Answer 6

buskin; high boot worn by tragic actors

Question 7

strepitus –ūs m.

Answer 7

noise; an uproar; din

Question 8

fidēs –is; mostly in the pl. fidēs –ium f.

Answer 8

lute string; (in plural) lyre

Question 9

pugil –ilis m.

Answer 9

a boxer, fist-fighter

Question 10

certāmen certāminis n.

Answer 10

contest, struggle

Question 11

vicis vicis f.

Answer 11

turn, change, succession

Question 12

salūtō salūtāre salūtāvī salūtātus

Answer 12

to greet

Question 13

pudens –entis

Answer 13

proper, decent, modest

Question 14

prāvus –a –um

Answer 14

crooked

Question 15

discō discere didicī

Answer 15

to learn

Question 16

indīgnor –ātus sum

Answer 16

to deem unworthy; to fret

Question 17

prope propius proximē

Answer 17

near (prep. + acc.)

Question 18

cēna cēnae f.

Answer 18

dinner

Question 19

Thyestēs (–ae) –is m.

Answer 19

Athenian hero tricked by Arestes into eating his own children

Question 20

sortior –ītus sum

Answer 20

to cast lots; obtain

Question 21

decens decentis

Answer 21

attractive, seemly

Question 22

interdum

Answer 22

sometimes

Question 23

tamen

Answer 23

nevertheless, however

Question 24

Chremēs –ētis m. (voc. Cremē)

Answer 24

a Greek man’s name, associated with miserly characters in the comedies of Terence

Question 25

tumidus –a –um

Answer 25

swollen

Question 26

dēlītigō dēlītigāre dēlītigāvī dēlītigātus

Answer 26

argue intensely

Question 27

ōs ōris n.

Answer 27

mouth, face

Question 28

plērumque

Answer 28

generally

Question 29

doleō dolēre doluī dolitus

Answer 29

to feel pain/grief

Question 30

pedester –tris –tre

Answer 30

pedestrian, unmounted

Question 31

Tēlephus (Tēlephos) –ī m.

Answer 31

Telephus; a Greek hero, son of Heracles

Question 32

Pēleus (disyllabic) –eī acc. Pēlea voc. Pēleu

Answer 32

Peleus, the father of Achilles

Question 33

exsul exsulis m.

Answer 33

exile

Question 34

uterque utraque utrumque

Answer 34

each of two

Question 35

prōiciō –icere iēcī –iectum

Answer 35

to cast forth, throw out, fling to the ground

Question 36

ampulla –ae f.

Answer 36

a flask, bottle, jar

Question 37

sesquipedālis –e

Answer 37

one and a half feet long

Question 38

tangō tangere tetigī tāctus

Answer 38

to touch

Question 39

querēla querēlae f.

Answer 39

complaint