Colloquia Monacensia

A dialogue about going to school, from the "Colloquia Monacensia," edited by G. Goetz in the Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum, vol. 3 [Leipzig: Teubner 1892] pp. 644-654, trans. adapted from Joanne Shelton, As the Roman Did, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) 108-109. The text is medieval, with elements going back to the 3rd c. AD.

Ante lucem vigilavi de somno;

I awoke before dawn;

surrexi de lecto, sedi, accepi pedules, caligas; calciavi me.

I arose from my bed, I sat down and took my socks and shoes. I put them on.

poposci aquam ad faciem;

I asked for water for my face;

lavo primo manus, deinde faciem lavi; extersi;

First I wash my hands, then I washed my face; I dried off;

deposui dormitoriam; accepi tunicam ad corpus;

I took off my sleeping clothes; I received the tunic for my body;

praecinxi me; unxi caput meum et pectinavi;

I put on my belt; I anointed my head and combed my hair;

feci circa collum pallam; indui me superariam albam;

I put my coak around my neck; I put on my