Chapter 46

Question 1

abeō abīre abiī abitum

Answer 1

to go away

Question 2

aciēs acieī f.

Answer 2

sharp edge; keennes; battle line

Question 3

altus –a –um

Answer 3

tall, high; deep

Question 4

ballista –ae f.

Answer 4

ballista, a large military engine, resembling a bow, stretched with cords and thongs, by which masses of stone and other missiles were thrown to a great distance

Question 5

centēnī –ae –a

Answer 5

100 each

Question 6

concha –ae f.

Answer 6

a shellfish; cockle shell, shell; a shell used as a trumpet; conch

Question 7

cursus cursūs m.

Answer 7

running; speed, zeal; charge, onrush; forward movement, march; revolution (wheel); course, direction, line of advance, orbit; voyage, passage; race; career; series; lesson

Question 8

dēbeō dēbēre dēbuī dēbitus

Answer 8

to owe; ought

Question 9

dēnārius –iī m.

Answer 9

a Roman silver coin, which originally contained ten, and afterwards eighteen asses

Question 10

dispōnō dispōnere dispōsuī dispōsitus

Answer 10

to place, arrange, distribute; (late) to settle, determine (+ acc. and inf.)

Question 11

dōnātivum –ī n.

Answer 11

a special gift to armies; a donative

Question 12

ēmicō ēmicāre ēmicuī ēmicātus

Answer 12

to leap, spring forth; to dart, bound, or spring upward; run, rush, dart forward; shine

Question 13

excitō excitāre excitāvī excitātus

Answer 13

to wake up, stir up; cause; raise, erect; incite; excite, arouse

Question 14

gnārus –a –um

Answer 14

knowing, skilled, practised, expert, versed

Question 15

legō legere lēgī lēctus

Answer 15

to gather; choose; read; collect (cremated bones); furl (sail), weigh (anchor); pick out; steal

Question 16

līberālitās līberālitātis f.

Answer 16

generosity, noble character

Question 17

locuplēs –ētis

Answer 17

rich

Question 18

māchina māchinae f.

Answer 18

device, machine; scaffolding; winch, windlass

Question 19

Ōceanus –ī m.

Answer 19

Oceanus

Question 20

perpetrō –āre

Answer 20

to carry through, complete, effect, achieve, execute, perform, accomplish, commit, perpetrate

Question 21

Pharos (Pharus) –ī f.

Answer 21

Pharos, an island off Alexandria; the Lighthouse of Alexandria

Question 22

postrēmō

Answer 22

finally, lastly

Question 23

spolia –ōrum n.

Answer 23

plunder

Question 24

supergredior –gredī –gressus sum

Answer 24

to surmount; exceed; step over; overcome; surpass

Question 25

turris turris f.

Answer 25

tower; high building, palace, citadel; dove tower, dove cot

Question 26

virītim

Answer 26

man by man, to each one separately, singly, individually