Catullus 59 Flashcards
Bonōniensis –e
from Bononia (mod. Bologna)
cēna cēnae f.
dinner (the principal Roman meal, normally eaten in the evening)
dēvolvō –ere –volvī –volūtus
roll something down from
fellō –āre –āvī –ātum
suck milk; perform oral sex on a man
Menēnus, ī, m.
a male member of the gens Menenius (a plebeian gens); otherwise unknown
prōsequor prōsequī prōsecūtus sum
escort; chase after
pānis pānis m.
bread
rapiō rapere rapuī raptus
seize and carry off
rogus rogī m.
funeral pyre
Rūfa –ae f.
woman’s cognomen; otherwise unknown, but perhaps a pseudonym for Lesbia / Clodia
Rūfulus –ī m.
dim. of Rufus, a male cognomen; possibly a reference to M. Caelius Rufus, the friend of Cicero
saepe
often
sepulcrētum –ī n.
cemetary, graveyard
sēmirāsus –a –um
partly shaven
tundō tundere tutudī tūnsus
beat repeatedly, buffet, pound
