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Monday, December 8, 2008

Vocab Quiz Chapter 12

1. Adulescens-young man
2. Annus-year
3. Mater-mother
4. Medicus-doctor
5. Pater-father
6. Patientia-patience
7. Principium-beginning
8. Acerbus-harsh
9. Amitto-to lose
10. Cado-to fall
Bonus: Creo-to create

A Gift Bearing Greeks

In Asia there was a great city, Troy. There lived the king Priam. Paris, the son of that man, took the beautiful Greek woman Helen. Because of that crime many Greeks came up to Asia and they were waging a bitter war for a long time with the Trojans. However, they had not been able to overcome the wall of the city. But then Epeus, one out of the Greeks, that man gave counsel: "If we make a great wooden horse and we will give to the Trojans, we go to be able to conquer: the Greeks truly conceal in the horse."
"He does not teach well," called a Greek and that man made an ambush without delay. After the battle Aeneas, leader of the Trojans, called, "We see no abundance in horses; we lead it into the city." Therefore, the Greeks were able to conquer. Bad fortune was perceived beforehand and they fleed out of our city.