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Oxford Chap. 4 & Geography
Vocab & Italian Geography
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Language - Latin
11/30/2004
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Term
adsum
 Definition
adesse =
to be present
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curo
 Definition
curare =
to care for / look after
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accedo
 Definition
accedere =
to approach
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procedo
 Definition
procedere =
to go forward
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surgo
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sugere =
to rise
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dormio
 Definition
dormire =
to sleep
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venio
 Definition
venire =
to come
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magnus, -a, -um
 Definition
great, big
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miser, misera, miserum
 Definition
sad, miserable
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multus, -a, -um
 Definition
much, many
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cur?
 Definition
why?
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diu
 Definition
for a long time
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iam
 Definition
now, already
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lente
 Definition
slowly
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saepe
 Definition
often
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tandem
 Definition
at last, finally
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amicus
 Definition
amici, m. =
friend
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ludus
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ludi, m. =
school
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eos
 Definition
them (masculine)
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eas
 Definition
them (feminine)
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ille
 Definition
he
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illa
 Definition
she
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quod
 Definition
because
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ubi
 Definition
when / where
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Ostia
 Definition
Rome's port city (at mouth of Tiber)
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Brundisium
 Definition
city on heel of Italian boot, port of departure for Greece
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Carthage
 Definition
North African enemy with whom Rome founght 3 Punic Wars
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Po River
 Definition
original northern border of Roman Italy; later Cisalpine Gaul was added, and the border became the Alps
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Via Appia
 Definition
The Appian Way; Rome's first and most important road; built in 312 BC, it linked Rome with Naples and later continued to Brundisium
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Regina Viarum
 Definition
Queen of the Roads; nickname given to the Via Appia
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Scylla & Charybdis
 Definition
monsters (multi-headed woman & whirlpool) thought to live in the Straits of Messina (straits thatseparate Sicily & Italy)
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Mt.Vesuvius
 Definition
volcano that erupted in 79 AD
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Pompeii, Stabiae, Herculaneum
 Definition
three cities destroyed in eruption
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Appenines
 Definition
these mountains made the conquest of the interior of Italy very difficult