§47: colloquium
BARBARUS
Rōmānī, summō in perīculō estis.
Cōpiae barbarōrum magnae sunt. Barbarī multōs sagittāriōs habent. Sagittāriī
multās sagittās habent. Hastae barbarōrum acūtae sunt. Pila barbarōrum longa
sunt. Scūta barbarōrum lāta sunt, Rōmānī summō in perīculō estis !
RŌMĀNUS
Summō in perīculō! mehercule.
Mūrus noster altus est, portae nostrae firmae sunt. Nec arma nec cōpiae
barbarōrum nōs terrent. Nostrae hastae acūtae sunt. Nostra scūta lāta sunt.
Nostrae cōpiae magnae sunt. Nostrī sagittāriī multās sagittās habent. Oppidum
nostrum tūtum est. Barbarī, nōs tūtī sumus, vōs summō in perīculō estis!
[A] vocabulary
acūtus, -a,-um: sharp
altus, -a, -um: high
firmus, -a, um: strong
lātus, -a, -um: wide
longus, -a, -um: long
magnus, -a, -um: big; great
multus, -a, -um: much
(plural: many)
summus, -a, -um: the greatest
tūtus, -a, -um: safe
noster, nostra, nostrum: our
[B] Find the Latin and focus on the words in bold:
our ¦ wall is ¦ high
our ¦ town is ¦ safe
in the ¦ greatest ¦ danger
we are ¦ safe
our ¦ troops are ¦ large
our ¦ gates are ¦ strong
the barbarians’ spears are ¦ sharp
our ¦ spears are ¦ sharp
the barbarians’ shields are ¦ wide
our ¦ shields are ¦ wide
the barbarians’ javelins are ¦ long
the barbarians’ shields are ¦ wide
the barbarians have many ¦ archers
our ¦ archers have ¦ many ¦ arrows
[C] adjectives in -er
Adjectives that end in -er in the masculine nominative
singular decline in the same way as nouns ending in -er i.e. many common adjectives
will lose the /e/ before the ending is added and some don’t; that isn’t
entirely random but, at this stage, it is better to note those that change as
you go along.
The two most common adjectives ending in -er that you will
come across and which don’t change are:
miser, misera, miserum: miserable; wretched
tener, tenera, tenerum: [i] delicate; soft; tender [ii] youthful
However, we focus here on common adjectives which do
change:
aeg¦er, aeg¦ra, aeg¦rum: sick
ater, atra, atrum: black i.e. dull black (think of matt
black paint)
glaber, glabra, glabrum: smooth; hairless
macer, macra, macrum: skinny
niger, nigra, nigrum: black i.e. shining black (think of
gloss black paint)
piger, pigra, pigrum: lazy
pulcher, pulchra, pulchrum: beautiful
ruber, rubra, rubrum: red
The same applies to these two possessive adjectives:
noster, nostra, nostrum: our
vester, vestra, vestrum: your (plural)
The short text below practises [i] dexter, dextra, dextrum: right and [ii] sinister, sinistra, sinistrum: left
§48: MEMBRA CORPORIS
lacertus dexter │ lacertus sinister
palma dextra │ palma sinistra
bracchium dextrum │ bracchium sinistrum
Hīc est palma dextra — hīc est bracchium dextrum — hīc est
lacertus dexter — hīc est palma sinistra — hīc est bracchium sinistrum — hīc
est lacertus sinister — hīc est gena dextra — hīc est gena sinistra — hic est
oculus dexter — hīc est oculus sinister — hīc est humerus dexter.
§49
Hīc est oculus dexter │ Here is the right eye.
> Oculum dextrum tangō │ I touch the right
eye
Hic est oculus sinister │ Here is the right eye.
> Oculum sinistrum
tangō │ I touch the left eye
Hīc est gena sinistra │ Here is the left cheek
> Genam sinistram
tangō │ I touch the left cheek
Hīc est bracchium dextrum │ Here is the right
(fore-)arm
> Bracchium
dextrum tangō │ I touch the right (fore-)arm
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