Catullus 97

Question 1

aegrotus –a –um

Answer 1

diseased

Question 2

Aemilius –iī m.

Answer 2

Roman nomen gentile; perhaps the poet Aemilius Macer, who wrote about animals

Question 3

aestus aestūs m.

Answer 3

heat, hot weather; swell (of the sea), flood; tumult

Question 4

asinus –ī m.

Answer 4

ass, donkey

Question 5

attingō attingere attigī attāctus

Answer 5

touch; touch upon (in speaking), mention

Question 6

carnifex –icis m.

Answer 6

executioner; scoundrel

Question 7

cunnus –ī m.

Answer 7

vulva, the female pudenda

Question 8

cūlus cūlī m.

Answer 8

anus

Question 9

diffindō –ere –fidī –fissus

Answer 9

split

Question 10

faciō facere fēcī factus

Answer 10

do, make, achieve, attain, reach

Question 11

futuō –uere –uī –ūtum

Answer 11

have sex with, fuck; copulate

Question 12

gingīva gingīvae f.

Answer 12

the gums

Question 13

habeō habēre habuī habitus

Answer 13

have, hold

Question 14

immundus –a –um

Answer 14

unclean

Question 15

ita

Answer 15

so

Question 16

lingō lingere linxī linctum

Answer 16

lick

Question 17

meiō meiere mixī mictus

Answer 17

urinate, make water; ejaculate

Question 18

mundus –a –um

Answer 18

comp. mundior: clean

Question 19

mūla –ae f.

Answer 19

a she mule

Question 20

nihilum/nīlum nihilī/nīlī n.

Answer 20

nothing; abl. w/ adv. Force, an emphatic form of non: not at all

Question 21

olfaciō –acere –ēcī –actum

Answer 21

smell

Question 22

pistrīnum –ī n.

Answer 22

mill

Question 23

ploxenum –ī n.

Answer 23

the body of a carriage

Question 24

possum posse potuī

Answer 24

to be able

Question 25

praetereā

Answer 25

besides, moreover

Question 26

putō putāre putāvī putātus

Answer 26

think

Question 27

quisquam quicquam

Answer 27

indef. pron., anyone, anything

Question 28

quālis quāle

Answer 28

(interr) of what kind; (rel.) such as

Question 29

referō referre rettulī relātus

Answer 29

bring back; report; (reflexive) return; w/ in + abl., write down; w/ acc. & dat., put something down to, assign to a category

Question 30

rictus –ūs m.

Answer 30

an open mouth

Question 31

sesquipedālis –e

Answer 31

one and a half feet long

Question 32

sine

Answer 32

prep. w/ abl., without

Question 33

soleō solēre solitus sum

Answer 33

to be accustomed (to); (euphemistic, w/ acc.) to “know,” i.e., be sexually intimate with

Question 34

trādō trādere trādidī trāditus

Answer 34

hand down, consign, entrust, pass on

Question 35

utrum

Answer 35

whether … or

Question 36

venustus –a –um

Answer 36

lovely, attractive, charming; graceful, pretty, neat

Question 37

vetus veteris

Answer 37

old

Question 38

vērum

Answer 38

adversative conj., assenting to what has been said but adding a qualification: but in fact, but, actually

Question 39

vērō

Answer 39

in truth, indeed

Question 40

ōs ōris n.

Answer 40

mouth; face, countenance