Odes 1.3 Sic te diva potens Flashcards
abscīdō –ere –cīdī –cīsus
to cut off (> abs and caedo)
Acherōn –ontis m.
the Acheron, a river of Hades; the lower world
Acroceraunium –iī n.
a rocky promontory Epirus extending into the Adriatic; usually plural
āēr āeris m.
air (one of 4 elements); atmosphere, sky; cloud, mist, weather; breeze; odor
aes aeris n. (acc. sing. aera or aerem)
copper/bronze/brass, base metal; money, pay, fee, fare; (w/alienum) debt; gong
aetherius –a –um
pertaining to the upper air; ethereal, heavenly; airy (> aether)
alius alia aliud
other, another
anima animae f.
a breeze or breath of air; the air; wind or blast of the bellows; breath (of life); soul
aquilō –ōnis m.
the north wind
arbiter –trī m.
arbiter, judge
arduus –a –um
steep, difficult
Atticus –a –um
of or pertaining to Attica or Athens, Attic, Athenian
audāx
bold, daring; courageous; reckless, rash; audacious, presumptuous; desperate
circā
around, all around; round about; near, in vicinity/company; on either side (adv. and prep. +acc.)
cohors cohortis f.
court; enclosure/yard/pen, farmyard; attendants, retinue, staff; circle; crowd;cohort, tenth part of legion (360 men); armed force; band; ship crew; bodyguard
- committō committere commīsī commīssus *
to bring together, unite, join, connect, attach; put together, construct; entrust; engage (battle), set against; begin, start; bring about; commit; incur; forfeit
- corripiō corripere corripuī correptum *
to seize, plunder; censure, rebuke, find fault with; hasten over; gradum corripere = hurry
J** crēdō crēdere crēdidī crēditus **
to trust, believe (+ dat.); entrust
Cyprus (Cypros) –ī f.
Cyprus, a large island in the Eastern Mediterranean
Daedalus –ī m.
Daedalus, the father of Greek sculpture, supposed to be of the time of Minos and Theseus, employed by Minos to build the Cretan Labyrinth
** dēbeō dēbēre dēbuī dēbitus **
to owe; ought
decertō decertāre decertāvī decertātus
to fight/contend with
dīmidium dīmidiī n.
half
dissociābilis –e
irreconcilable, incompatible; separating
dīva –ae f.
a goddess
experior experīrī expertus sum
to test; try; experience
febris febris f.
fever
fragilis –e
easily broken, brittle, fragile
frāter frātris m.
brother
fraus fraudis f.
fraud; trickery, deceit; imposition, offense, crime; delusion
fretum fretī n.
straight, channel; (sing. or pl. by metonymy) the sea
fulmen fulminis n.
lightening, thunderbolt
gradus gradūs m.
step; position
Hadria –ae f.
the Adriatic Sea
Helena –ae f.
Helen, daughter of Jupiter and Leda, sister of Clytemnestra and of Castor, and wife of Menelaus
Herculeus –a –um
of Hercules; Herculean (> Hercules)
homō hominis m.
human being, man; in pl., people
hūmānus –a –um
human; kind; humane, civilized, refined [~ hostiae => human sacrifice]
Hyades –um f. or Hyās –adis f.
the Hyades, a group of seven stars in the constellation Taurus
Īapetus –ī m.
Iapetus, a Titan, son of Uranos and Gaia; the father of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus,
Iāpyx –ygis
Iapygian, Apulian, the wind blowing from Iapygia; Iapyx, the N.W. wind
impius –a –um
disloyal, wicked
incolumis incolumis incolume
unharmed, uninjured; alive, safe; unimpaired
incumbō –ere –cubuī –cubitus
to lay one’s self upon; lean or recline upon; (w. dat.), lie on or stretch over; fall upon; bend to, ply; hasten, urge, press on; overhang; press or bend toward; (w. ad and acc.), lean, hang, incline; bear down on (in a military or sexual sense)
īnfāmis īnfāmis īnfāme
infamous
īnferō īnferre intulī inlātus (illātus)
to bring/carry in, import; advance, bring/march/step/move foward; impel, urge; inflict/cause/inflict/impose/inspire (w/DAT); [bellum inferre => make war on]; put/throw/thrust in/on, insert; bury/inter; pay; charge as expense; append
ipse ipsa ipsum
himself, herself, itself (intensive); very
īrācundus –a –um
irascible, irritable, passionate, choleric, angry, ireful, easily provoked
labor labōris m.
work; effort, hardship
lētum letī n.
death
lūcidus –a –um
bright, shining, gleaming, glittering; clear (> luceo)
maciēs –ēī f.
emaciation, leanness; ghastliness
mortālis –e
subject to death, mortal; of mortal nature, lineage, or descent; earthly, human; made by man, mortal; subst., mortales, ium, c., mortals, men, mankind; mortalia, ium, n., human affairs; fortunes, woes (> mors)
necessitās necessitātis f.
need/necessity; inevitability; difficult straits; poverty; obligation; bond
nēquīquam
in vain
nihil or nīl n.
nothing
Notus –ī m.
identical in meaning with auster, the south–wind, wind, storm
- obstringō –ere –strīnxī –strictum *
to bind, hamper
Ōceanus –ī m.
Oceanus
oculus oculī m.
eye
pectus pectoris n.
chest, breast; heart
pelagus pelagī m.
sea, ocean
penna pennae f.
wing, feather
- perpetior –petī –pessus sum *
to bear to the end, endure
- perrumpō –ere –rūpī –ruptus *
to break, burst through
- petō petere petiī/petīvī petītus *
to ask for, seek; attack; make for, go towards
** pōnō pōnere posuī positus **
to put, place; set aside; lend (money) out (at interest)
post
after(ward), later; behind (+ acc.)
praeceps praecipitis
plunging head-foremost, falling; headlong; rushing (of winds etc.)
prīmus –a –um
first, foremost, best, chief, principal; nearest, next; [in primus = especially]
prius
earlier, preceding, before; in preference, to, rather
prūdēns –entis
aware, acting deliberately, open-eyed; prudent, clever, wise
rabiēs –em –ē f.
madness, frenzy, fury, fierceness; of inanimate things
- reddō reddere reddidī redditus *
to return; restore; deliver; hand over, pay back, render, give back; translate; reproduce, render; repeat
- regō regere rēxī rēctus *
to rule, control, guide; manage, direct
rōbur rōboris n.
oak, strength
scopulus –ī m.
a projecting ledge of rock; a high cliff or rock; crag; ledge, reef; detached rock, fragment of rock
sēmōtus –a –um
distant
servō servāre servāvī servātus
to save, preserve
sīc
thus, so, in this way, in such a way
stultitia –ae f.
stupidity
subdūcō –dūcere –dūxī –ductum
to draw up, raise; remove, take away
tamen
nevertheless
tardus –a –um
slow, limping; deliberate; late
trānsiliō –īre –īvī (–iī or –uī)
to leap over; pass over; fly through (> trans and salio)
triplex –icis
threefold, triple
trīstis trīstis trīste
sad, sorrowful; gloomy
trux trucis
wild, rough, hard, harsh, savage, fierce, ferocious, grim, stern
turbidus –a –um
confused; mingled, foul; dismal, dark; whirling; of the mind, sad, troubled; startled, in alarm; furious (> turbo)
vadum –ī n.
a ford; a shallow, shoal; sand–bank; shallow water; bottom, depth; water, tide, stream; water of the sea; wave, sea
Vergilius (Virgilius) –iī m.
Vergil
** volō velle voluī **
to be willing, want, wish; mean, signify
