Pompey's Letters Vocab
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To Marcellus and Lentulus
- exīstimō, -āre: judge, value, consider
- dīspergō, -ere, -sī, -sus: scatter, disperse
- idcircō: therefore
- vereor, -eri, veritus sum: fear, dread
- implicō, -āre: involve, entangle, engage
- fīrmus, -a, -um: steady, strong, durable
- collocō, -āre: arrange, station, put in order
- expediō, -īre, -īvī, -ītus: disengage
- sollicitūdō, -inis, f.: concern, anxiety
- subsidium, -ī, n.: help, relief
- committō, -ere, -mīsī, -missus: bring together, entrust
- illuc: to that place, thither
- contrahō, -ere, -trāxī, -trāctus: assemble, draw together
- dīmittō, -ere, -mīsī, -missus: leave, abandon
- placeō, -ēre, -cuī, -citus: please
- ob: on account of
- cēnseō, -ere, cēnsuī, cēnsus: judge, assess
- dēportō, -āre: carry off, take away
- vehementer: exceedingly, very much
- prōsum, prōdesse, prōfuī: be useful, benefit
To Domitius, 11 February
- valde: greatly, intensely, very
- dīsiciō, -ere, -iēci, -iectus: scatter, divide
- cōnstituō, -ere, -uī, -ūtus: set up, prepare, determine
- levis, -e: light, trivial, capricious
- proptereā: for this reason
- magis: more
- quantō: by how much, by as much as
- appropinquō, -āre: approach, come near to
- adversārius, -a, -um: hostile, adverse, inimical
- coepiō, -ere, coepī, coeptus: begin
- dēsistō, -ere, -stitī, -stitus: cease, stop, give up
- distrahō, -ere, -āxī, -actus: separate, divide, tear apart
- servō, -āre: preserve
- impetrō, -āre: obtain, procure, succeed
To Domitius, 17 February
- reddō, -ere, -didī, -ditus: deliver
- praemoneō, -ēre, -uī, -itus: forewarn
- committō, -ere, -mīsī, -missus: bring together in a fight
- implicō, -āre: entangle, engage
- expedītus, -a, -um: unencumbered, free, open
- cōnfīdō, -ere, -fīsus sum: have confidence in
- dīmicō, -āre: fight
- ratiō, -ōnis, f: method, plan
- explicō, -āre: disentangle
- nōscō, -ere, nōvī, nōtus: learn, become acquainted with
- praetereō, -īre, -ivī, -itus: pass by, disregard, excel
