Caelius Ciceroni Salutem (1)

Question 1

contentio, contentionis (f)

Answer 1

Struggle

Question 2

clarus, clara, clarum

Answer 2

clear

Question 3

appareo, apparere, apparui, apparitum

Answer 3

to appear

Question 4

propositum, propositi (n)

Answer 4

question

Question 5

potior, potiri, potitus sum (+gen. or abl.)

Answer 5

to obtain

Question 6

dimico, dimicare, dimicavi, dimicatum

Answer 6

to fight

Question 7

patior, patiri, passus sum

Answer 7

to tolerate

Question 8

aliter

Answer 8

for a second time

Question 9

fie, fieri, factus sum

Answer 9

to become

Question 10

persuadeo, persuadere, persuasi, persuasum

Answer 10

to persuade

Question 11

recedo, recedere, recessi, recessum

Answer 11

to retreat, leave

Question 12

ambo, ambae, ambo

Answer 12

both

Question 13

invidiosus, invidiosa, invidiosum

Answer 13

odious

Question 14

coniunctio, coniunctionis (f)

Answer 14

union

Question 15

occultus, occulta, occultum

Answer 15

secret

Question 16

recido, recidere, recidi, recasum

Answer 16

to come to

Question 17

obtrectatio, obtrectationis (f)

Answer 17

backbiting

Question 18

erumpo, erumpere, erupi, eruptum

Answer 18

to break out (with se)

Question 19

reperio, reperire, repperi, repertum

Answer 19

to find out

Question 20

dubito, dubitare, dubitavi, dubitatum

Answer 20

to doubt

Question 21

deliberatio, deliberationis (f)

Answer 21

question

Question 22

perturbo, perturbare, perturbavi, perturbatum

Answer 22

to disturb

Question 23

discordia, discordiae (f)

Answer 23

discord

Question 24

timor, timoris (m)

Answer 24

fear

Question 25

accedo, accedere, accessi, accessum

Answer 25

to agree with (ad + acc)

Question 26

confero, conferre, contuli, collatum

Answer 26

to bring together; to compare

Question 27

uterque, utraque, utrumque

Answer 27

each

Question 28

pars, partis (f)

Answer 28

side

Question 29

summa re publica

Answer 29

high politics

Question 30

in annum

Answer 30

in a year's time

Question 31

quo (+comp) ... eo (+comp)

Answer 31

the ... -er, the ... -er

Question 32

Caesari persuasum est

Answer 32

impersonal passive; Caesar has been persuaded

Question 33

quid consili

Answer 33

partitive genitive; "what decision"

Question 34

[eos] quique

Answer 34

"those who" - senators and men of equestrian rank

Question 35

qui ... vivant

Answer 35

relative clause with subjunctive verb in "oratio obliqua" - part of indirect statement

Question 36

ad Parthicum bellum

Answer 36

Reference to the military campaign against the Parthians, in which the 3rd member of Caesar and Pompey's alliance, Crassus, had died in 53 BCE

Question 37

parabat

Answer 37

Caelius writes as if the time of the letter was when Cicero was actually reading it - epistolary tense