HUM / REL 293 - Continuation of Beginning Latin
Course Notes - Week 7
Cambridge Course
Page 71 - The picture shows a model of the palace at Fishbourne, with a formal court-yard and the entrance to the audience chamber (the atrium)
Page 88 - The garden plants illustrated were used not only for decoration by the Romans, but were also used medicinally. Acanthus was used as a poultice for sprains, burns, and hair loss. Lily oil was used in face creams, and lily juice was used for open wounds and ulcers. Roses were used for perfume, and for eye infections. Hyssop was used for perfumes, for coughs and asthma, and as a source of nectar for bees. Honey from the bees was the main sweetening agent in Roman food. Grapes were used for wine, grape leaves are used as an edible wrap for cooking food.
Translating the Pluperfect - The Pluperfect is used for actions which took place before some other action. It can often be translated as "had (done something)"
eg. I saw the book which he had written.
After it had rained, the weeds started to grow.
Wheelock
Sententiae Antīquae
Sentence 3 - The adjective publicus, -a, -um is related to populus, and means "of the people". So a res publica is a state in which all the people share in decisions and benefits.
Sentences 6 & 7 are both from Cicero's orations against Catiline.
Sentence 9 - bonā fidē is used as a phrase in English, "in good faith". Learn it, and it will give you the Ablative singular for the First and Fifth declensions.
Sentence 11 - Homer's Illiad begins, not at the start of the Trojan war, but towards the end, and assumes that the listeners already know the story of the Fall of Troy. in mediās rēs is a Latin phrase which is used in English to describe stories which start part-way through the action and use flash-backs to fill in the story. Learn the phrase, and it will give you the Accusative plural for the Fist and Fifth declensions.
Sentence 15 exemplifies Stoic philosophy - "moderation", or the "Golden Mean" was very important.
Sentence 16 - Romans worshipped the goddess Fortune, rather like a modern gambler invokes "Lady Luck"
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