Catullus 7

Question 1

aestuōsus –a –um

Answer 1

hot, sweltering

Question 2

arēna (harēna) –ae f.

Answer 2

sand, beach

Question 3

Battus –ī m.

Answer 3

Battus, legendary founder of Cyrene

Question 4

bāsium bāsī(ī) n.

Answer 4

a kiss

Question 5

bāsiātiō –ōnis f.

Answer 5

a kissing, kissification

Question 6

bāsiō bāsiāre bāsiāvī bāsiātus

Answer 6

kiss

Question 7

cūriōsus –a –um

Answer 7

excessively careful, meddlesome; as subst., a busybody

Question 8

Cȳrēnae –ārum f.

Answer 8

Cyrene, a town in northwest Lybia; the province of Cyrene

Question 9

fascinō fascināre

Answer 9

to cast a fascinum or spell upon; bewitch

Question 10

furtīvus –a –um

Answer 10

secret, furtive

Question 11

iaceō iacēre iacuī

Answer 11

lie, recline

Question 12

inter

Answer 12

prep. w/ acc., between, among

Question 13

Iuppiter Iovis m.

Answer 13

Juppiter or Zeus, chief of the Olympian gods; by metonymy, the weather, wind, sky

Question 14

Lesbia –ae f.

Answer 14

poetic name given the woman loved by Catullus

Question 15

Libys –yos m.

Answer 15

a Libyan

Question 16

lingua linguae f.

Answer 16

tongue

Question 17

lāsarpīcifer –era –erum

Answer 17

silphium-bearing; producing silphium, used as a contraceptive

Question 18

numerus numerī m.

Answer 18

number; verse, meter

Question 19

ōrāculum –ī n.

Answer 19

oracle

Question 20

pernumerō pernumerāre pernumerāvī pernumerātus

Answer 20

fully enumerate, count out

Question 21

possum posse potuī

Answer 21

to be able

Question 22

quaerō quaerere quaesiī/quaesīvī quaesītus

Answer 22

ask, ask for, seek

Question 23

quam

Answer 23

interr. & rel. to which extent or degree; how; as, than

Question 24

quot

Answer 24

indecl. adj., how many, as many

Question 25

sacer sacra sacrum

Answer 25

sacred, holy; accursed, detestable

Question 26

satis or sat (comp. satius)

Answer 26

enough

Question 27

sepulcrum sepulcrī n.

Answer 27

tomb, sepulcher

Question 28

sum esse fuī futūrus

Answer 28

to be

Question 29

super

Answer 29

over, above; more; besides; prep. w/ acc., over

Question 30

sīdus sīderis n.

Answer 30

star, planet, constellation

Question 31

taceō tacēre tacuī tacitus

Answer 31

be silent, say nothing

Question 32

tam

Answer 32

to such a degree, so

Question 33

vetus veteris

Answer 33

old

Question 34

videō vidēre vīdī vīsus

Answer 34

see, perceive; pass. seem, seem good or proper

Question 35

vēsānus –a –um

Answer 35

frenzied, mad, wild