Ovid Vocab 582-691 Flashcards
humili de plebe parentes
my parents were of the humble lower orders
quae duri colerent … arva iuvenci
fields for tough bullocks to cultivate
lanigerosve greges
wool-bearing flocks
armenta
cattle
linoque … et hamis
with a line and hooks
calamo salientes ducere
land them with his rod as they flailed
opes
wealth
haererem
be stuck
regimen … carinae flectere
turning the steering of a ship
dextra moderante
with my guiding right hand
Oleniae sidus pluviale Capellae
the rainy Olenian Goat Star
Taygetenque Hyadasque … Arctonque
Taygetes and the Hyades and the Great Bear
oculis (bit about stars)
from observation
ventorumque domos
the abodes of the winds
portus puppibus aptos
the ports which were suitable for ships
ad oras applicor
I put in at the shores
adductor litora
I brought myself to shore
dextris … remis
with skillful use of the oars
udaeque inmittor harenae
sank into the wet sand
aurora
dawn
admoneo … monstroque
I bade … I showed
laticesque … recentes
fresh water
qui aura mihi … promittat
what the wind holds for me
tumulo … ab alto prospicio
look out from a high hill
repetoque carinam
I make for the ship
adsumus en
look, we are here
praedam … nactus
having obtained booty
virginea puerum … forma
a boy with the young girl’s appearance
titubare videtur
seems to be staggering
cultum faciemque gradumque
his dress and his face and his gait
et sensi et dixi
I both saw what was what and I said
quod numen
what sort of divine power
o faveas nostrisque laboribus adsis
o please would you support our endeavours
conscendere summas … antemnas
climbing the topmost yard arms
ocior
swifter
prensoque rudente relabi
sliding back down after grasping the rope
hoc … probat
seconded this
prorae tutela
the forward lookout
non tamen hanc sacro violari pondere pinum perpetiar
no matter - I will not allow this pinewood ship to be defiled with its holy cargo