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PREPARATIONS

§17-

liber, llbcra, liber- um free

With Abl.;cf. §6, §12

metallum nietal

multl, ae, a many

abundabat abounded

With Abl. plumbum album white lead

i.e. tin ferrum iron

atque and moreover

Tacitus Tacitus,

a Roman historian Zold

aurum

argentum

margarita

ostrea

dabat

parvus, a, um

praeclarus, a, um famous

caehmi sky, climate

tum quoque then too, i.e.

just as now creber, crebra,

crebrum frequent

silver pearl [Margaret] oyster

gave, yieldcd small

pluvia* rain

nebula cloud

ater, atra, atrum dark foedus, a, um hideous prulna frost

ab-erant were absent

natura nature

piger, pigra, pigr-

um sluggish

testimonium testimony

nauta Romanus see §15 (Rule of Genders)

inquit vix

pot-erant -ne

an

satis

impiger, impigra, impigrum

says he

scarxely, hardly were able marks a qucs-

tion (?r (in a ques-

tion) sufficientty,

enough

active (ht. not sluggish)

•Note the Ablative withouta Preposition, here meaning 'with': pluviis foedum, hideous with rains. Coinpare § 15, creber pueris, crotvded with boys.