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Phaedrus - Catullus Egnatius et frater

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  • in perpetuum
    forever
  • inferias
    tribute to the dead
  • quidquid est (quidquid accidit)
    whatever is happening
  • ademptus - abstulit
    taken away - stolen
  • candidos dentes
    gleaming bright teeth
  • monet
    warn/advise
  • fletus (flet)
    weeping, tears (weep for)
  • ave atque vale
    hail and farewell
  • gentes (gens)
    peoples/tribes
  • urbanus
    city dweller (not like them country folk)
  • nequiquam (sicut frustra)
    in vain
  • munere mortis
    gift of death
  • quare?
    why?
  • ineptus
    silly (inept)
  • prisco more
    by the ancient custom
  • aequora
    seas (calm seas)
  • renidet (similar to ridet)
    grin, smirk
  • vectus
    having been carried
  • quaeso
    I beg/ask
  • rivus:rivum
    river, stream
  • ut adloquerer
    (so that) I might speak to/address
  • mutam cinerem
    silent ash
  • lupus et agnus
    wolf and lamb
  • superior v. inferior
    higher (place) v. lower (place)
  • ubicumque and quaecumque
    wherever and whatever