Notes + Vocab

Line 199: Quattuor - 4

Line 200:  perago, peragere, peregi, peractus disturb; finish; kill; carry through to the end, complete

Line 201: aevum, -i, n.  time, time of life, age, old age, generation; passage/lapse of time; all time;

Line 201:  lactens, (gen.), lactentis suckling, unweaned; full of milk/sap, juicy; prepared with milk; milky white

Line 203: turgeo, turgere, tursi, - swell out, become swollen or tumid

Line 211: temperies, temperiei F proper mixture, temper

Line 212:  senilis, senilis, senilesenile, aged

Line 212: This line contains 17 syllables, the maximum amount of syllables allowed within the meter requirements.

Line 213: “aut spoliata suos, aut, quos habet, alba capillos.”

Either its own hair having been disspoiled, or what it has, [having turned] white.

Line 213: hiems, hiemis F. winter, winter time; rainy season; cold, frost; storm, stormy weather

Line 214:  requies, requiei Frest, respite; intermission, pause, break; amusement, hobby

Line 218: ango, angere, anxi, anctuschoke, throttle, strangle; press tight; distress, cause pain, vex, trouble

Line 221:

edo, edere, edidi, edituseject/emit; put/give forth; beget; bear; display/evince/exhibit

Line 224:

adjuvo, adjuvare, adjuvi, adjutushelp, aid, abet, encourage, favor; cherish, sustain; be of use, be profitable

conamen, conaminis Neffort, exertion; power to move; attempt, endeavor, enterprise; prop, support

nervus, nervi Msinew/muscle/nerve; hamstring; tendon; stringed instrument

Line 232: rugas...aniles → old-woman crease

Line 233: Tyndaris → patronymic for the daughter of Tyndaris. The daughter is the subject of the sentence.

Line 236: lenta… morte → hyperbaton; artful word organization creates a visual image of how all people are being consumed and surrounded by a slow death.