Catullus 64.154-167

Question 1

attamen

Answer 1

nevertheless

Question 2

candidus –a –um

Answer 2

shining white, clear, bright; fair; kind

Question 3

Charybdis –is f.

Answer 3

Charybdis, a whirlpool near the Sicilian coast, in the Straits of Messina, opposite the rock of Scylla; personified as a monster

Question 4

conqueror –querī –questus sum

Answer 4

to complain, lament

Question 5

cōnsternō –ere –strāvī –strātus

Answer 5

to strew over; cover, strew

Question 6

cubīle cubīlis n.

Answer 6

place of rest, couch, bed

Question 7

exspuō –uere –uī –ūtum

Answer 7

to spit out

Question 8

famulor –ārī –ātus sum

Answer 8

to be a servant

Question 9

gignō gignere genuī genitus

Answer 9

to create, bring forth, beget, bear

Question 10

horreō horrēre horruī

Answer 10

to dread, shrink from, shudder at; stand on end, bristle; have rough appearance

Question 11

ignārus –a –um

Answer 11

ignorant; unaware, having no experience of; senseless; strange

Question 12

iūcundus –a –um

Answer 12

pleasant, delightful, agreeable, pleasing

Question 13

labor labōris m.

Answer 13

work; effort, hardship

Question 14

leaena –ae f.

Answer 14

lioness

Question 15

lympha –ae f.

Answer 15

clear spring water; water

Question 16

mittō mittere mīsī missus

Answer 16

to send; release, let go; omit, leave off (+ inf.)

Question 17

parēns parentis m. or f.

Answer 17

parent, father, mother

Question 18

permulceō –ēre –mulsī –mulsus (–mulctus)

Answer 18

to stroke; calm, soothe, cheer

Question 19

praeceptum praeceptī n.

Answer 19

teaching, lesson, precept; order, command

Question 20

queō quīre quīvī/quiī quitus

Answer 20

to be able

Question 21

quisnam (quīnam) quaenam quidnam

Answer 21

who, pray? what, pray? who? what?

Question 22

rapax –ācis

Answer 22

predatory, rapacious

Question 23

reddō reddere reddidī redditus

Answer 23

to return; restore; deliver; hand over, pay back, render, give back; translate; reproduce, render; repeat

Question 24

rūpēs –is f.

Answer 24

a rock, cliff, crag, ledge

Question 25

Scylla –ae f.

Answer 25

Scylla, dangerous rock on the Italian side of the Straits of Messana opposite Charybdis; personified as a monster, half woman and half fish; Scylla, one of the ships of Aeneas

Question 26

sēnsus sēnsūs m.

Answer 26

perception, feeling; sense

Question 27

spūmō spūmāre spūmāvī spūmātus

Answer 27

to foam (> spuma)

Question 28

Syrtis –is f.

Answer 28

shoals on the N. African coast between Carthage and Cyrene