MINIMUS – CHAPTER 4
VOCABULARY
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•docet
• teaches
•laetus
• happy
•iratus
• angry
•cur
•why?
•fatigata
•bored
GRAMMAR RULES
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• The ending on an adjective must match
the noun in masculinity and femininity.
• Male ends in –us
• Female ends in –a
TRANSLATION QUIZ
• Please translate all Latin words to English.
• docet
• laetus
• iratus
• cur?
• fatigata
TRANSLATION QUIZ
• Read the sentences.
• Write the correct adjective to complete the sentence.
A. Flavia doesn’t do her writing, so Corinthus is
(iratus/irata/callidus)
B. Candidus sees Pandora, so he is (iratus/laetus/laeta)
C. Rufus wants to go to sleep because he is
(laeta/fessus/iratus)
D. Everyone enjoys the meals Candidus cooks because he is a
(fessus/optimus/irata) cook.
E. Lepidina is glad she bought Pandora because she is a
(fatigatus/optima/irata) hairdresser.
ROMAN REPORT
• Corinthus teaches Flavia and Iulius
• Latin Poetry
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• A long poem by Virgil
• Tells the early history of Rome
• Read lines aloud
• Copy lines on wax-covered tablets with a special stick called a stilus
• Stilus is pointed at one end for writing and flat at the other end to fix
mistakes.
• Photo shows Iulius’s work
• Corinthus was obviously not happy about the work because it has the
word SEG, which is short for segniter.
• segniter means “sloppy work”
• Flavia is bored and starts to doodle.
TRANSLATION QUIZ
• Please translate all Latin words to English.
• docet
• laetus
• iratus
• cur?
• fatigata
• segniter
• BONUS: stilus - describe what it looks like and
how it was used
MYTH: ECHO AND NARCISSUS
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• A beautiful girl named Echo offended the goddess Juno.
• Juno punished Echo by making her repeat what other people say.
• Echo now had no words of her own.
• Echo fell in love with a man named Narcissus who was very vain and cruel.
• Echo repeated whatever Narcissus said but Narcissus wouldn’t even look at her.
• She faded away due to her sorrow until only her voice was left.
• Narcissus had done this to many people so the gods punished Narcissus.
• One day Narcissus saw his reflection in a pool and fell in love with it.
• He stayed at the pool until he starved to death.
• In the place he died, the gods had a beautiful flower grow, the narcissus.
• This flower is still found growing around a lake or pool of water.
MYTH ACTIVITY
• Jealously and Vanity
• Create a story that uses the same moral of
the myth.
• At least one page.
• Illustrate a picture that depicts the moral of
the story.