Clues | Answers |
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A silent man, or an eloquent historian (voc.) | TACITE |
A woman who is blamed or called to account (like Clodia in 4 d) | accusata |
Aut salvator aut salvus aut (rare) salus ipsa | sospes |
By turns, in return: ____ versa | VICE |
Cut short, severed, wrenched away (fem: nom pl, gen/dat sing) | abruptae |
He might have known, cognovisset (pluperfect subj.) | scivisset |
Hooked, like Palinurus's hands as he climbs the rock face (Aeneid 6.360) | uncis |
I quaked, horrui | tremui |
In qua fluunt aquae aut verba: rivo, flumine (abl.) | amne |
Like all Cretans, I tell lies | mentior |
Nonetheless, however | attamen |
One half of what Tacitus claims to renounce in writing history (Annals 1.1) | IRA |
Recte, diligenter, solito more; the Roman way? | RITE |
Clues | Answers |
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Skill or discipline: ___ longa, vita brevis | ARS |
Stretched out: ____ visentur... stagna (Horace Odes 2.15.3-4) | extenta |
The other half of what Tacitus repudiates (vide 23 across) | STUDIO |
They were dragging down (or through the mud) | detrahebant |
Things sharp to the taste or touch or smell | acria |
This woman's husband - or rather, brother: I'm always making that mistake (Cicero Pro Caelio 32) | semperhicerro |
To be mad: aegrotare animi vitio (eg Horace Odes 3.19.18) | insanire |
To get someone off the hook; to unburden them | exonerare |
Tortured (men) or curly (hair) | torti |
You (s) are in the fold; or might you be inveigling your way in? | insinues |
You lie there on your own | iaces |
____ in orbe, in the whole world (except Kansas) | TOTO |
_____ mutandis; things having been changed (that needed to be changed) (abl. pl.) | MUTATIS |
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