Cambridge Latin Course Stage 8
Terms
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- senator
- senator
- inimici
- enemies
- saepe
- often
- turbulenti
- rowdy, disorderly
- spectaculum
- show, spectacle
- splendidum
- splendid
- edidit
- presented
- diem natalem
- birthday
- celebrabat
- was celebrating
- cives
- citizens
- complebant
- were filling
- nuntiabant
- were announcing
- viginti
- twenty
- bestiarii
- specially trained beast-fighters who hunted beasts in the arena
- bestias
- wild animals, beasts
- quam celerrime
- as quickly as possible
- hi
- these
- cavea
- seating area
- Romanus
- Roman
- Nuceriam
- Nuceria
- Nucerini
- Nucerians, citizens of Nuceria
- tuba
- trumpet
- sonuit
- sounded
- pugnam commiserunt
- began the fight
- victores
- victors, winners
- expediti
- lightly armed
- evitaverunt
- avoided
- callidi
- clever, smart
- decipiunt
- are deceiving, are tricking
- frustra
- in vain
- provocaverunt
- challenged
- unus
- one
- graviter
- seriously
- vulneraverunt
- wounded
- alterum
- the second
- hic
- this
- missionem
- release
- mortem
- death
- pollicem vertit
- turned his thumb up
- vehementer
- violently, loudly
- signum
- sign, signal
- dedit
- gave
- interfecerunt
- killed
- iterum
- again
- esuriebant
- were hungry
- fortissimi
- very brave
- retinet
- is holding back
- hunc
- this
- tres
- three
- audacissime
- very boldly
- recubuerunt
- lay down
- obdormiverunt
- went to sleep
- iratissimi
- very angry
- ridiculum
- ridiculous, silly
- edebat
- was presenting
- fugiebant
- began to flee
- suos
- their
- destrinxerunt
- drew
- attonitus
- astonished
- tristis
- sad
- pedem
- foot, paw
- ostendit
- showed
- spinam
- thorn
- dolet
- hurts
- benignus
- kind
- fremuit
- roared
- ignavus
- cowardly, lazy
- exclamavit
- shouted
- adiuvo
- help
- hoc
- this
- extraxit
- pulled out
- postea
- afterwards
- comprehenderunt
- arrested
- olfecit
- smelled, sniffed
- lambebat
- began to lick
- agnovit
- recognized
- ad salutem
- to safety
- Christianus
- Christian
- murmillo
- A gladiator armed with sword and shield and wearing a helmet with a crest shaped like a fish
- retiarii
- A gladiator armed with a net and a three-pronged trident
- retia
- nets
- suspirium puellarum
- the girls' heart-throb
- venatio
- a hunt of wild animals
- bestiae
- wild beasts
- agitat
- chases, hunts
- consumit
- eats
- ducit
- leads
- eum
- him
- facile
- easily
- ferox
- fierce, ferocious
- gladius
- sword
- habitat
- lives
- incitat
- urges on, encourages
- nuntius
- messenger
- pes
- foot, paw
- porta
- gate
- postulat
- demands
- puer
- boy
- pugnat
- fights
- recumbit
- lies down, reclines
- sanguis
- blood
- statim
- at once
- totus
- whole