Listen to the extract and answer the questions. The translation is at the end of the post.
Vocabulary
affirmō,
affirmāre [1]: assert; maintain
bellicōsus,
-a, -um: warlike; fierce
calēdonius,
-a, -um: Caledonian; Scottish
Cambria
(Mediaeval Latin): Wales (Welsh: Cymru)
Celta
(masc. or fem.): a Celt
colōrātus,
-a, -um: coloured
colōrō,
colōrāre [1]: colour; dye
cōnstō,
cōnstāre [1]: consist
corium,
-ī [2/n]: leather; skin; hide
essedum,
-ī [2/n]: chariot
ferus,
-a, -um: wild; savage
flāvus,
-a, -um: yellow; golden; blond; flaxen.
This
is the adjective the text uses here. However, in the descriptions of the Celts
by the Roman historian Tacitus, he uses the adjective rutilus, -a,
-um meaning “of a yellowish-red” colour, that red hair colour being a
characteristic of some Celtic people.
hodiernus,
-a, -um: today’s; of today
membrum,
-ī [2/n]: limb
meridiānus,
-a, -um: southern
rōbustus,
-a, -um: strong
populus,
-ī [2/m]: people; (here): tribe
sīcut:
just like
ūniversus,
-a, -um: whole; entire
vitrum,
-ī [2/n]: [i] glass (material); [ii] (here) woad (a blue dye used by the
Britons)
Part
2(i)
"Incolae
antīquī insulae nostrae ferī et bellicōsī erant. Hastīs, sagittīs, essedīs
inter sē pugnābant. Proelia Britannōs antīquōs dēlectābant. Multī et dīversī
erant populī Britannōrum. Multī ex populīs erant Celtae. Celtīs antīquīs, sīcut
Germānīs, capillī flāvī, oculī caeruleī, membra magna et rōbusta erant. Sīc
Tacitus dē Calēdoniīs narrat. Incolae Cambriae merīdiānae 'colōrātī' erant. Sed
Rōmānīs statūra parva, oculī et capillī nigrī erant. Ūniversī Britannī, ut
Gāius Iūlius affirmat, membra vitrō colōrābant, sīcut nautae nostrī hodiernī.
Vestīmenta ex coriīs ferārum cōnstābant. In casīs parvīs circum silvās suās
habitābant."
Questions
[1]
Complete the notes with single words:
[a]
Character of the ancient inhabitants: [i] __________ and [ii] __________
[b]
They fought amongst each other with [i] __________, [ii] __________, and [iii]
__________
[c]
They loved __________.
[d]
The people / tribes were [i] __________ and [ii] __________.
[e]
Many of them were __________.
[f]
They were similar to the __________.
[g]
Physical description of the inhabitants of Britannia:
eyes:
__________
hair:
__________
limbs:
[i] __________, and [ii] __________
[h]
Who
gives this physical description? __________
Who
specifically is being described? __________
[i]
Physical description of the Romans:
hair:
__________
eyes:
__________
stature:
__________
[j]
How do we interpret the term colōrātī? __________
[k]
Who, according to the writer, have a similar design now? __________
[2]
[i]
Describe the clothes of the Ancient Britons (2).
[ii]
Where did they live? (3)
____________________
Part 2(i)
The ancient inhabitants of our island were wild and warlike.
They fought with / amongst each other with spears, arrows, and chariots. The
ancient Britons loved battles. There were many diverse tribes of Britons. Many
of the tribes were Celts. The ancient Celts, like the Germans, had blond hair,
blue eyes, and large and robust limbs. Tacitus talks of the Scots in this way.
The inhabitants of southern Wales were 'coloured' [i.e. they had tattoos of
woad]. But the Romans were small in stature, and had black eyes and hair. All
the Britons, as Gaius Julius states, would dye their limbs with woad, like our
present-day sailors. Their clothes consisted of the skins of wild animals. They
lived in small houses around their forests.
Answers
[1]
[a] [i] wild [ii] warlike
[b] [i] spears, [ii]arows, [iii] chariots
[c] battles
[d] [i] many, [ii]diverse.
[e] Celts
[f] Germans (Germanic tribes)
[g] eyes: blue; hair: blonde; limbs: [i] large, [ii] robuse
[h] Tacitus; Scots
[i] hair: black; eyes: black; stature: small
[j] tattoo(ed)
[k] sailors
[2]
[i] (1) skin of (2) wild animals
[ii] (1) small (2) houses / cottages (3) around their forests
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