HoraceSatires1.6.65-80Vocab

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mĕdĭōcris, -e: middling, moderate, tolerable, ordinary

mendōsus, -a, -um: full of faults or blemishes

ălĭōquī (adv.): in other respects, for the rest, otherwise

inspergo, -ere, -spersi, -spersum: to sprinkle or scatter into or upon

rĕ-prĕhendo (rĕ-prendo), -ere, -di, -nsum: to blame, censure, find fault with, reprove, rebuke, reprehend

naevus, -i m.: mole, wart on the body

sordes, -is f.: dirt, filth, uncleanness, squalor; meanness, stinginess, niggardliness, sordidness (cf.: parcimonia, avaritia).

lustrum, i, n.: a haunt or den of wild beasts; a house of ill-repute; debauchery

ōbĭcĭo, -ere, -iēci, -iectum: to throw out against one, to taunt, reproach, or upbraid with any thing, as a crime

insons, -ntis: guiltless, innocent

collaudo (1): to praise or commend very much, extol highly

măcer, -cra, -crum: thin, poor, barren

ăgellus, -i, m.: (dim. ager) a small piece of ground, a little field

lūdus, -i, m.: school

suspendo, -ere: to prop up, hold up, support

lŏcŭlus, -i, m.: a small receptacle with compartments, a coffer or casket for keeping all sorts of things in; a purse, pocket

tabula, -ae f.: a writing-tablet; t. litteraria, a writing-tablet for children

lăcertus, -i, m.: the muscular part of the arm, from the shoulder to the elbow, the upper arm.

octōni, -ae, -a: eight each, eight at a time, by eights

Īdus, -ŭum f.: one of the three days in each month from which the other days were reckoned in the Roman calendar, the Ides; it fell upon the fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October; upon the thirteenth day in the remaining months (cf.: Kalendae, Nonae)

sēmet: =sē

prō-gnātus, -a, -um: born, descended, sprung from some one

ăvītus, -a, -um: ancestral

res, ei f.: effects, substance, property, possessions:

sumptus, -ūs m.: expense, cost, charge

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