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Some builders are better than others . . .
Flavius is supervising another group of soldiers who are constructing
a stone gateway. Rufus enjoys watching them.
milites saxa maxima tollunt.
Brigantes polyspaston mirabile spectant.
WO R DS TO H E LP
Nouns
Brigantes
(m pI) members
of a British tribe
castellum
(n) fortress
descriptio
(f) drawing
fragor
(m) crash
loco
(m) place
polyspaston
(n) crane
porta
(f) gate
Ve rbs
habent
they have
omittunt
they drop
servat
he saves
stant
they stand
tollunt
they lift
Participles
deletum
destroyed
percussus
struck
pictam
drawn
Imperative
cavete!
watch out!
Aci;edives
attonitus/a/um
astonished
ingens
huge
lapideus/a/um
made of stone
ligneus/a/um
made of wood
mirabile
amazing
proprio
correct
vivus/a/um
alive
Acive rb
paene
almost
G RAS P T H E G RA M M A R
There are four more
participles
for you to find in the picture story. Remember that
participles behave like
adjectives,
so they must have the same
gender
as the noun
they are describing. Two of the participles in the picture story are masculine, one is
feminine and one is neuter. Can you work out which is which?
LATI N ROOTS
1
Why are the
instruments in an orchestra given that name?
2
What do you think a
works with?
3
"Westminster Abbey is a magnificent edifice." Explain this sentence
using a simpler word.
4
The Picts were a tribe from northern Britain who were heavily tattooed.
How did they get their name?
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is short for
legio
(legion) and it is
Legion, from Spam (HISP. f'
f the Roman numerals for the number
followed by VIllI, another orm
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nine (IX).
Rufus returns home with the frightened mouse. She soon makes friends
with Minimus, and Rufus names her "Minima" . Rufus explains to
Corinthus how Minima was almost crushed by the falling stone.
Corinthus tells Rufus that the famous Greek hero Odysseus was
nearly killed by a huge boulder too . . .
NEVER SHOW OFF TO A GIANT
Once upon a time the great Greek hero
Odysseus found himself trapped, with
twelve of his men, inside the cave of
Polyphemus, the Cyclops. Trying to
persuade the one-eyed giant to stop
eating his men, Odysseus introduced
himself as Nobody and offered the giant
some wine. Once the giant was drunk,
Odysseus blinded him and he and his
surviving men escaped to the safety of
their ship. Polyphemus cried out to the
other Cyclops that Nobody had hurt
him. So they would not come to help
him, and he had to stumble and grope
his way to the seashore in pursuit of
the Greeks.
As he sailed away, Odysseus boasted to
the Cyclops, revealing his true identity:
"If anyone asks you how you came by your blindness, tell him your eye was
put out by Odysseus, sacker of cities, son of Laertes, who lives in Ithaca."
Polyphemus was so enraged that he prayed to his father Poseidon to give
Odysseus a troublesome journey home across the ocean. Then he hurled a
massive boulder at Odysseus's ship, and almost caused it to sink.
All change for Panclora
Freedom!
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