Latin Via Ovid 35

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Aeolus, -ī m

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Aeolus, god of the winds. Lipari and other islands just north of Sicily ar still known as the Aeolian islands

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agnus, -ī m

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lamb

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artifex, artificis m

Back 3

artist, painter (Nero's last words were supposedly `Quālis artifex pereō!' - `What an artist dies in me!'

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barbarus, -ī m

Back 4

barbarian

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calix, calicis m

Back 5

wine cup

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Circē, Circae/Circēs

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Circe, an enchantress, daughter of Helios (the sun god) and brother of King Aeetes of Colchis. Her mythical island of Aeaea was supposed to be in the far west.Virgil locates it off the coast of Italy and local tradition identifies it with Mt. Circeo, a promontory half-way from Rome to Naples which looks like an island from the distance and may originally have been one.

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color, colōris m

Back 7

colour

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crātēr, crātēris m

Back 8

a large bowl for mixing wine

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Cyclops, Cyclopis m

Back 9

Cyclops

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fulmen, fulminis n

Back 10

lightning, thunderbolt

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fundus, -ī m

Back 11

bottom (also `farm')

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gigās, gigantis m

Back 12

giant

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Harpyiae, -ārum

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Harpies (half-woman, half-bird)

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historia, -ae f

Back 14

story

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hydria, -ae f

Back 15

large water jar

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Ithaca, -ae f

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island off the west coast of Greece (the home of Odysseus may not be identical with the island currently bearing that name)

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Laestrȳgon, Laestrȳgonis m

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Laestrygonians, a race of giants

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maga, -ae f

Back 18

witch

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nauta, -ae f

Back 19

sailor

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Pēnelopē, -ae f (Greek genitive in -ēs)

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Penelope, wife of Ulysses

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Polyphēmus, -ī m

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Polyphemus, the Cyclops blinded by Ulysses

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porcus, -ī m

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pig, swine

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potestās, potestātis f

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power

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rēmus, -ī m

Back 24

oar

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saccus, -ī m

Back 25

sack, bag

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Scylla, -ae f

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a monster with six dog heads

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Sīrēnēs, Sīrēnum f

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Sirens (creatures resembling women whose singing lured sailors to their death)

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tempestās, tempestātis f

Back 28

storm, tempest

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Ulixēs, Ulixis m

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Ulysses

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unda, -ae f

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wave, water, sea

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vadum, -ī n

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shallows, bottom of the sea

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dēvorō, -āre, -āvī. -ātum

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devour, swallow

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fīniō, fīnīre, fīnīvī, fīnītum

Back 33

finish, limit

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fulgeō, fulgēre, fulsī, fulsum

Back 34

shine

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frangō, frangere, frēgī, frāctum

Back 35

break

Front 36

furō, furere, furuī

Back 36

rage

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ligō, -āre, -āvī, -ātum

Back 37

tie

Front 38

pellō, pellere, pepulī, pulsum

Back 38

drive

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pingō, pingere, pīnxī, pictum

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paint, depict, draw, embroider

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plaudō, plaudere, plausī, plausum

Back 40

applaud

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salūtō, -āre, -āvī, -ātum

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greet

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texō, texere, texuī, textum

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weave (distinguish from tegō, tegere, tēxī, tēctum, cover)

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trānsfodiō, -fodere, -fōdī, -fossum

Back 43

stab, transfix

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vomō, vomere, vomuī, vomitum

Back 44

disgorge, vomit, spew

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birēmis, -e

Back 45

two-oared, with two banks of oars

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cūriōsus, -a, -um

Back 46

curious

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ignōtus, -a, -um

Back 47

unknown, strange

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sagax, sagācis

Back 48

wily, shrewd

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trirēmis, -e

Back 49

three-oared, with three bank of oars

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vorax, vorāgis

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hungry, gluttonous