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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.
