The Apennines, the main mountain range in Italy, run roughly north-south, and the Appian Way veers to the east of this range as it heads south. These mountains a traveler would cross if he were going from Rome to Brundisium
A thousand or “relating to a thousand” – In the context of Roman roads, it refers to the stones marking distances of one Roman miles. Millarium
ätrium – main room of a Roman house that had an impluvium and compluvium as well as a shrine to the household gods
Borealis – Northern
Circus Maximus – Where teams of horse-drawn chariots competed
Colosseum – An example of an amphitheater. The Colosseum was dedicated in the year A.D. LXXX. (80)
Cubiculum – Romans would typically sleep in a cubiculum, which was a bedroom, often decorated with mosaics and paintings —> A cubiculum, culina, and triclinium were found in villã
Cubiculum/culina – room of a villa would Romans usually entertain friends at dinner
Familia Philadelphiae habitat
The family lives in Philadelphia
Fēmina et filius in vill habitabant
were living
Forum – the primary place for shopping, socializing, and hearing speeches
Marcus in casa prope silvam habitat
In a hut
Insula
Island, block of flats
Ita, ego Romae habito
Yes, I live in Rome
Marcus non Romae, sed Novi Eboraci habitat
Marcus does not live in Rome but in New York
Marcus est Americanus
Marcus is American
Mare Nostrum – name Romans gave to the Mediterrean sea —> The Latin root of Mediterranean=terra, land
Minime, iuvenis non in Italia habitat
No the young man does not live in Italy
Multae civitates sunt in America
There are many states in America
Novum Eboracum est urbs
New York is a city
Novi Eboraci habito et familia mea Bostoniae habitat
I live in New York and my family lives in Boston
Olympus is famous as the mountain home of the gods
The peristylium in a Roman villa often
Puella in Germania nata est
A girl was born in Germany
Schola – school
Taberna – Shop/inn
Urbes et civitates sunt in America
Unus vir ex silvis Germaniae venit
Of Germany
Vesuvius – The volcano eruption that buried the city of Pompeii -> Mt. Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. LXXIX=79
The Latin root of Villanova=villa,
country house
From many countries Viri et fēminae ex multis patriis veniunt
hexafu 