HUM 293 / REL 293 - Continuation of Beginning Latin
Course Notes - Week 6
Cambridge Course
Page 71 - the picture shows a model of the palace at Fishbourne, with the entrance to the audience chamber. More of the model is shown on page 84. Archaeologists reckon that the palace was built AD 75-80, so it would have been quite new at the time set for the stories (ca. AD 81 - just after the eruption of Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii)
Page 73 - the entertainments are based on descriptions of Roman dinner-parties, for example Petromius' "Trimalchionis", 53, and Pliny "Letters" IV, 17
Wheelock
Practice and Review, Pages 137-138,
Sentence 13 - A "tyrant" was originally just a title for a ruler. Later, it came to have the present negative connotation, because so many tyrants used their power to oppress their people. "sensus communis" is an idiom meaning sensitivity or concern for those in one's community - "feeling for the community" might be a good translation.
Sententiae Antīquae
Sentence 2 illustrates how near together the tenements (insulae) were in Rome.
Sentence 8 - Xenophon was a fifth-century BC Greek, who wrote accounts of military campaigns in Persia, a treatise on horsemanship, and accounts of agriculture in Greece
Virgil's Messianic Eclogue is the fourth in a series of poems which he wrote, ca. 37 BC. He probably intended it to refer to the heir of the Emperor Augustus, whom the Augusta (the Empress) was carrying. The child turned out to be a girl. The early Christian Church saw this poem as being a prophecy of the Messiah, Christ
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