JuvenalSatires4.11-24Vocab

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levis, -e: light; slight, trivial

dĕcet, decuit (impersonal): it is seemly, comely, becoming; it beseems, behooves, is fitting, suitable, proper

dirus, -a, -um: fearful, horrible, dire

foedus, -a, -um: foul, filthy, horrible, abominable

crimen, criminis n.: charge, accusation

persona, -ae f.: person

mullus, -i m.: the red mullet (a fish)

aequo (1): make equal

sānē (adv.): to be sure, no doubt

pār, păris: equal to

lībra, -ae f.: the Roman pound of 12 oz.

pĕr-hĭbĕo, -ēre, -ui, -ĭtum: to say, assert any thing

artĭfex, fĭcis m.: maker, originator, author, contriver

munus, muneris n.: gift

praecipuus, -a, -um: first, chief

tabula, -ae f.: will

cera, -ae f.: wax

orbus, -a, -um: childless

cludo, cludere, clusi, clusum (claudo, -ere, clausi, clausum ): shut, enclose

specularis (lapis): a kind of transparent stone (muscovy-glass, isinglass-stone, mica) used for windows

antrum, -i n.: cave

frugi (a dat. form, used as adj. indecl.): useful, fit, proper, worthy, honest, discreet, virtuous, temperate, frugal

suc-cingo, -ere, -nxi, -nctum: gird, gird about, girdle

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