Notes

106 

• pulvis, pulveris, m., dust.

107 

• tingō, tingere, tīnxī, tīnctus, to wet, soak, moisten; to dye, stain, color. 

108 

• reperio, reperīre, repperī, repertus, to find, discover; to find (someone, something) to be.

109

• Ē quibus: Partitive Ablative

• illa: Thisbe

• dignus, -a, -um, suitable, appropriate; + abl., worthy (of).

110

• nostra: = mea

• anima, -ae, f., air, breath; soul, life; spirit, ghost

• miserandus, -a, -um, pitiable. 

• perimō, perimere, perēmī, perēmptus, to destroy, kill.

111

• quī: ego is the antecedent 

• Keep an eye out for the indirect command

112

• dīvellō, dīvellere, dīvellī, dīvulsus, to tear apart, tear to pieces. 

113 

• scelerātus, -a, -um, accursed; criminal, sinful.

• ferus, -a, -um, wild; ferocious, savage. 

• cōnsūmō, cōnsūmere, cōnsūmpsī, cōnsūmptus, to destroy; to devour. 

• viscus, visceris, n., usually pl., flesh, entrails.

114

• quīcumque, quaecumque, quodcumque, whoever, whatever. 

• quīcumque: with leōnēs. rūpēs, rūpis, f., rocky cliff.

115

• timidī est: gen. of characteristic

• nex, necis, f., death, murder.

• pactus, -a, -um, agreed upon, settled upon (with arboris).

118

• haustus, -ūs, m., drink, draft.

119

• accingō, accingere, accīnxī, accīnctus, to gird, equip. dēmīsit: here, plunged. 

• ilia, īlium, n. pl., groin, genitals; entrails. 

• ferrum, -ī, n., iron; weapon, sword.

• ferrum: With both dēmīsit and trāxit(on line 120)

120

• mora, -ae, f., delay; nec mora, idiom, and without delay

• fervēns, ferventis, boiling; warm (here, with freshly shed blood)

121

• resupīnus, -a, -um, humus, -ī, f., earth, ground.

• humō: use in; abl. (normally seen as loc. humī)

• cruor, cruõris, m., blood (from a wound); slaughter. 

• ēmico, -āre, -āvī, -ātūrus, to move suddenly outward/upward; to spurt out/upward.

122

• aliter, adv., otherwise, differently.

• vitiātus, -a, -um, faulty, defective 

• fistula, -ae, f., tube, pipe (especially, as here, water-pipe); shepherd's pipe.

123

• strīdō, strīdere, strīdī, to hiss. 

• forāmen, forāminis, n., hole, perforation. 

• longās /... aquās (124): long streams of water

124

• ēiaculor, -ārī, -ātus sum, to shoot out, discharge. 

• ictus, -ūs, m., stroke, blow; here, spurt, pulsing.

125

• arboreus, -a, -um, of a tree. 

• fētus, -ūs, m., giving birth; fruit; offspring. 

• adspergō, adsperginis, f., sprinkling, spattering. 

• āter, ātra, ātrum, black, dark.

126

• vertō, vertere, vertī, versus, to (cause to) turn, spin; to reverse, change. 

• vertuntur: intransitive in the passive, change (into).

• faciēs, -ēī, f., outward appearance; face; shape, form. 

• madefactus, -a, -um, drenched, soaked.

127

• purpureus, -a, -um, purple. 

• mōrum, -ī, n., mulberry.

• color, colōris, m., color.

• Notice the repeated ō/ō/ō sound, used to emphasize the dark transformation made by the fruit.

128

• positō=depositō

• nē fallat: the purpose clause is started by the word redit (on line 129)

129

• animō: here, heart. 

• requiro, requïrere, requisīvī, requïsītus, to try to find, search for; to nees miss, long for.

130

• vītārit=vītāverit

• gestiō, gestīre, gestīvī, to desire eagerly, long.

132

• facit: use eam.

• incertus, -a, -um, not fixed; uncertain, doubtful; disarranged.

133

• dubitō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus, to be in doubt/be uncertain (with an + indirect question); to waver, hesitate. 

• tremebundus, -a, -um, quivering, trembling. 

• pulso, -āre, -āvī, -ātus, to strike, beat (against). 

• cruentus, -a, -um, bloody.

134

• buxus, -ī, f., box-tree; boxwood 

135

• pallidus, -a, -um, pale, colorless. 

• exhorrēscō, exhorrēscere, exhorruī, to shudder, shiver (with fear). 

• aequor, aequoris, n., smooth, level surface; surface of the sea 

• īnstar: (indeclinable) n. noun + gen., the equivalent (of), just like

136

• exiguus, -a, -um, small, slight.

• cum: translate as when for this clause

137

•  remoror, -ārī, -ātus sum, to delay, pause.

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