Chapter 21

Question 1

absolvō –ere –solvī –solūtum

Answer 1

to absolve (someone of), complete

Question 2

Achaia (Achāïa) –ae f.

Answer 2

Achaea, a province in Greece

Question 3

Alpēs –ium f.

Answer 3

the Alps

Question 4

amphitheātrum –ī n.

Answer 4

amphitheater

Question 5

aqua aquae f.

Answer 5

water; sea, lake; river, stream; rain, rainfall (pl.), rainwater; spa; urine

Question 6

Claudius –a –um

Answer 6

pertaining to the Claudii

Question 7

condō condere condidī conditus

Answer 7

to put/insert (into); store up/put away, preserve, bottle (wine); bury/inter; sink; build/found, make; shut (eyes); conceal/hide/keep safe; put together, compose; restore; sheathe (sword); plunge/bury (weapon in enemy); put out of sight

Question 8

conlābor –lāpsus sum

Answer 8

to slip or fall together or completely; give way, fail; sink down; swoon, faint; fall

Question 9

Didymaeum –ī n.

Answer 9

The Temple of Apollo at Didyma, near Miletus

Question 10

dīmētior –mēnsus sum

Answer 10

to measure, mark out; lay out

Question 11

ductus –ūs m.

Answer 11

military lead, conduct, generalship, command; conveyance (of water)

Question 12

incohō –āre –āvī –ātum

Answer 12

to start work on, begin

Question 13

isthmos or isthmus –ī m.

Answer 13

an isthmus

Question 14

iugum iugī n.

Answer 14

yoke; team, pair (of horses); ridge (mountain), summit, chain

Question 15

Mīlētus –ī f.

Answer 15

Melitus, a city in Caria

Question 16

moenia moenium n. pl.

Answer 16

(city) walls

Question 17

peragō peragere perēgī perāctum

Answer 17

to finish, end

Question 18

perfodiō –ere –fōdī –fossus

Answer 18

to dig or pierce through, transfix

Question 19

Polycratēs –is m.

Answer 19

Polycrates, esp. the tyrant of Samos, 6th cent BCE

Question 20

Pompēius –iī m.

Answer 20

a cognomen; esp. (but not only) Pompey the Great

Question 21

prīmipīlāris –is m.

Answer 21

the centurion in command of the first cohort, senior centurion

Question 22

reficiō reficere refēcī refectus

Answer 22

to rebuild, repair, restore

Question 23

rēgia rēgia f.

Answer 23

a palace (> regius, a, um, sc. domus)

Question 24

regiō regiōnis f.

Answer 24

area, region; neighborhood; district, country; direction

Question 25

restituō restituere restituī restitūtus

Answer 25

to restore; revive; bring back; make good

Question 26

saepta –ōrum n.

Answer 26

a fence, enclosure, wall; (as proper name) the voting enclosures in the Campus Martius

Question 27

Sāmos (–us) –ī f.

Answer 27

Samos, an island southwest of Ephesus, near the coast of Ionia

Question 28

sēmiperfectus –a –um

Answer 28

half-completed

Question 29

theātrum theātrī n.

Answer 29

theater

Question 30

Tībur –uris n.

Answer 30

Tibur, a city on the eastern border of Latium

Question 31

vetustās vetustātis f.

Answer 31

age, antiquity