Ovid's Amores I.9 Vocabulary

adversus adversum: (adv. and prep.) - ibit in adversos montes duplicataque nimbo  flumina,       

• confronting, running into

• enemy

• standing in the way, opposed (to)

• inimical

aetās aetātis f.: - Veneri quoque convenit aetas.

• age, time of life

• perpetual, eternal

• heating

• schorching

āgmen agminis n.: - sic fera Threicii ceciderunt agmina Rhesi,             

• combative

• plowed earth

• field

• line of march

cadō cadere cecidī cāsum: quosque neges umquam posse iacere, cadunt.              

• to battle

• to fall

• be be killed

• to struggle

caedō caedere cecīdī caesum: - caedere et armata vulgus inerme manu.            

• to burn

• to strike, to cut down

• to blaze

• to seek, to head for

dēsinō desinere desiī desitum: - Ergo desidiam quicumque vocabat amorem, desinat.

• to stop, to cease

• to go down, to lower down

• to leave off, to forget

• to destroy

 dum: while (+indic.); - dum licet, Argeas frangite, Troes, opes!                       

• until (+subj.)

• provided that (+subj.)

• for which

• however

ingenium ingeniī n.: et dandis ingeniosa notis                                                 

• originality

• intelligence

• brilliance, cleverness

• nature, innate quality

licet licēre licuit licitum est: - dum licet, Argeas frangite, Troes, opes!                       

• to like, to appeal

• it is permitted

• to destroy

• to break

mereō merēre meruī meritum: - in castris aera merere suis.                                      

• to serve as a soldier

• to disturb

• to be worthy

• to earn