GCSE Latin - Aeneid Book 9 Vocabulary

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Aeneid book 9 - Vocab

- Words listed in the order they appear in the text.


- Each word in same form as found in verse.

- Taken from official AWS translation


- -que suffixes emitted, -ve kept but not translated

acerrimus

very keen

comitem

companion

iaculo

javelin

sagittis

arrows

induit

worn

intonsa

unshaven

pariter

side by side

ruebant

rush

tum

at that time

communi

shared

dine?

do?

adorem

passion

cuique

each person

fit

become

dira

keen

cupido

desire

iamdudum

for a long time now

invadere

adventure

mens

mind

placida

peace

contenta

satisfied with

cernis

(you can) see

fiducia

confidence

rerum

circumstances

rara

far apart

micant

flickering

somno

sleep

soluti

relaxed

procubuere

fallen unconscious

late

far and wide

percipe

consider

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porro

furthermore

dubitem

thinking

sententia

plan

surgat

rising

acciri

summoned

exposcunt

demand

mitti

sent

certa

intelligence

reportent

report

posco

ask

facti

deed

fama

fame

sat

enough

tumulo

hill

videor

seems to me > I think

reperire

find

muros

walls

moenia

city

Pallantea

Pallanteum

protinus

immediately

armati

armed

incedunt

set out

euntis

as they went along

primorum manus

band of the elite

votis

prayers

gerens

bearing

curam

responsibility

virilem

man

mandata

orders

aurae

winds

discerpunt

tore apart

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nubibus

clouds

inrita

unfulfilled

superant

crossed

fossas

ditches

umbram

shadow

inimica

enemy

passim

here and there

herbam

grass

fusa

sprawled

arrectos

tipped up

litore

shore

currus

chariots

lora

reins

rotas

wheels

simul

alongside

iacere

lay

ore

aloud

locutus

said

audendum

must be brave

dextra

right hand

ipsa

itself

hac iter est

here is the course of our journey

attollere

come upon

tergo

from behind

custodi

take guard

consule

look out

longe

distance

vasta

vast

dabo

deal out

lato

wide

limite

path

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impastus

starving

ceu

just like

plena

crowded

leo

lion

ovilia

sheep pen

turbans

running riot

suadet

urges

vesana

mad

fames

hunger

mandit

bites/chews

trahit

drags off

molle

gentle

pecus

flock

mutum

silent

metu

fear/distress

fremit

roars

cruento

bloody

caedes

slaughter

incensus

enraged/incensed

perfurit

stormed/raged

multam

great mass

medio

midst

sine nomine

nameless

plebem

inferiors/plebs

subit

attacked/killed

ignaros

off their guard

vigilantem

keeping watch

cuncta

everything

metuens

afraid

cratera

mixing-bowl

se tegebat

hid himself

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pectore

chest

in adverso

in front of/opposite

totum

whole

cui

as

comminus

at close quarters

ensem

sword

condidit

buried

adsurgenti

getting up

recepit

drew it back out

multa morte

grave death/floods of blood

purpuream

crimson

vomit

spewed up

animam

breath/soul

sanguine

blood

mixta

mixed with

refert

coughed up

moriens

dying/as he died

furto

secret mission

fervidus

seething/raging

instat

pressed on

socios

companions

tendebat

directed his attentions

ignem

fire

deficere

dying out

extremum

at the edge

religatos

tethered

rite

duly

carpere

grazing

gramem

grass

equos

horses

breviter

quickly/hastily

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talia

these words

sensit

noticed

nimia

too much

caede

slaughter

cupidine

bloodlust

ferri

carried away

absistamus

we must stop (jussive)

lux

light

inimica

hostile

propinquat

rising

poenarum

punishment

exhaustam

extracted

satis

enough

via facta

a path is made

interea

meanwhile

praemissi

sent out ahead

urbe Latina

the Latins city

campis

plain

instructa

drawn up

moratur

delaying

ibant

making their way

Turno regi

king Turnus

responsa

answers

ter centum

three hundred

scutati

armed with a scutum (a long, wooden shield)

Volcente

Volcens

magistro

leader

iamque

and now

propinquabant

approaching

castris

camp

subibant

right beneath

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procul

from far away

hos

these men

laevo

left

flectentis

turning down

limite

path

cernunt

saw

galea

helmet

sublustri

dim

prodidit

betrayed

immemorem

forgetful

radiis

rays (of the moon)

adversa

to his detriment

refulsit

shone

haud temere

not in vain

visum

seen

agmine

company

quae?

what?

causa

cause

quive?

or who?

in armis

carrying weapons

quove?

or whither?

tenetis iter

your journey hold > are you heading

tendere contra

said in reply

celare

hastened

fugam

flight

silvas

woods

fidere

put their trust

obiciunt sese

placed themselves

divortia

junctions

nota

well-known

hinc atque hinc

on this side and that

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aditum

entrance

coronant

surrounded

late

far and wide

dumis

thickets

ilice

holm-oaks

horrida

wild

densi

dense/impenetrable

complerant

filled

undique

on all sides

sentes

thorns

rara

scattered

occultos

hidden

lucebat

shining

semita

path

callis

moorland

tenebrae

darkness

ramorum

branches

onerosa

heavy (the weighing him down booty)

praeda

booty

impediunt

hindered

fallit

tricked

regione

direction

abit

got away

imprudens

unwittingly

evaserat

escaped

stabula alta

high stables (high altitude)

stetit

halted

absentem

missing

respexit

looked back

regione

place/area

reliqui

left

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quave?

or where?

sequar

find

rursus

again

perplexum

convoluted

revolvens

retraced

fallacis

treacherous

vestigia

footprints

observata

studied

legit

noted

silentibus

silent

errat

wandered

strepitus

loud noises

signa sequentum

signals of the pursuers

in medio tempus

in the interim

pervenit

reached/pierced

fraude

deceitfulness

turbante

confusing

tumultu

tumult

oppressum

overwhelmed

rapit

seized

conantem

struggling

plurima

again and again

frustra

in vain

vi

force

audeat

dare

eripere

rescue

sese inferat

throw himself

medios in enses

into the midst of their swords

moriturus

destined to die

properet

hasten

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ocius

immediately

adducto

drawing his arm in (abl. ab)

torquet

threw

hastile

spear

lacerto

arm

voce

aloud

praesens

closely

succurre

assist

astrorum

stars

decus

glory

nemorum

woods

Latonia

daughter of Leto

custos

guardian

umquam

ever

si qua

if in any way

aris

altars

venatibus

fruits of the hunts

auxi

added/increased

suspendive

hung

tholo

shrine

sacra

sacred

fastigia

gables

fixi

fixed

sine

allow me

turbare

throw into confusion

globum

band of men

rege

guide

tela

spear

per auras

through the air

toto

entire

conixius

striving

conicit

flung

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ferrum

spear/weapon

hasta

spear

volans

flew

diverberat

cleaved

umbras

shadows

aversi

turned round

in tergum

into the back

frangitur

broke

fisso

splintered

transit

passed through

praecordia

heart

ligno

wood

vomens

spewing up

callidum

warm

frigidus

growing cold

longis singultibus

heavy sobs

ilia

sides

pulsat

shook

hoc

through this

acrior

more eager

idem

same man

ecce

watch

telum

spear

librabat

balanced

trepidant

panicked

tempus

temples

utrumque

both

stridens

whirring

traiecto

pierced

haesit

stuck

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tepefacta

growing warm

cerebro

brain

saevit

rage

atrox

fierce

teli

of the spear

usquam

nowhere

auctorem

thrower/the person responsible

ardens

burning

immittere

attack

interea

instead

calido

warm

sanguine

blood

poenas

punishment

persolves

pay

amborum

both

recluso

drew/unsheathed

ibat in

attacked

vero

indeed

exterritus

terrified

amens

out of his mind

se celare

conceal himself

amplius

any longer

potuit

could

perferre

endure

dolorem

greif

feci

did

convertite

train (your weapons)

fraus

deception

iste

that boy

ausus

dared

conscia

watchful

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sidera

stars

testor

call to witness

tantum

merely

nimium

too much

dilexit

loved

viribus

with full force

adactus

driven home

transadigit

pierced

costas

ribs

candida

white

pectora

breast

rumpit

broke

leto

in death

artus

limbs

it

went

cruor

blood/gore

umeros

shoulders

cervix

neck

conlapse

collapsed

recumbit

sank

purpureus

purple

veluti

just as

flos

flower

succisus

cut

aratro

plough

languescit

wilts

moriens

in death

lassove

weary

papavera

poppies

collo

neck

demisere

bend

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caput

heads

pluvia

rain

forte

by chance

gravantur

weighed down

at

but

solum

alone

moratur

intent

glomerati

gathered

communis

at close quarters

proturbant

drive off

instat

pressed on

setius

nonetheless

rotat

whirled

fulmineum

flashing

donec

until

clamantis

screaming

in ore

in the face

condidit

buried

adverso

opposing

animam

soul

abstulit

stole

super

on top of

exanimum

lifeless

sese proiecit

flung himself

confossus

wounded fatally

placida

calm

demum

at last

quievit

found peace

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