HoraceSatires1.6.1-11Vocab

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Lȳdĭa, ae, f.: a country in Asia Minor, the capital of which was Sardis, the fabled original land of the Etruscans. Lȳdus, a, um, adj., Lydian; transf., Etrurian, Etruscan.— As subst.: Lȳdi, ōrum, m.

fīnis, is m.: in plural, borders, and hence territory, land, country enclosed within boundaries

gĕnĕrōsus -a, -um: of good or noble birth, noble, eminent

impĕrĭto (1): to command, govern, rule (+ dat.)

nāsus, i, m.: nose

suspendo, -ere: hang up, cause to be suspended. Aliquem or aliquid naso (adunco), to turn up one's nose at, to sneer at a person or thing (Horatian)

ăd-uncus, a, um: hooked; nasus, a hooked or aquiline nose

ignōtus, a, um: unknown; of low birth or condition, lowborn, base, vulgar

lībertīnus, a, um: of or belonging to the condition of a freedman (opp. ingenuus, of the condition of a freeborn person); lībertīnus, i, m., a freedman (in reference to his status in society or the state; whereas a freedman was called libertus in reference to the manumitter)

rēfert (or separately rē fert), referre, rettŭlit: it matters, imports, concerns, it is of importance or consequence

ingĕnŭus, a, um: freeborn, born of free parents

Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome, born of a slave mother.

regnum, -i n.: reign

amplus, -a, -um: great, abundant, ample

hŏnor or hŏnos, -ōris m.: public honor, official dignity, office, post, preferment

augĕo, -ēre, auxi, auctum: Aliquem (aliquid) aliquā re, to furnish abundantly with something, to heap upon, give to, to enrich, endow, bless, load with.

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