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brother, 1.34, 2.4, 10.65
brow/forehead, 1.24, 12.61
Brutus (Lucius Junius, first consul of the Republic),10.39,11.44
bull, 12.61
burial, 4.24, 5.34, 5.74, 6.18, 8.43, 9.78, 10.43, 10.90, 10.97, 11.13, 11.14
burning, 2.87, 3.17, 4.75, 5.53, 11.93
busybody, 11.63
busyness, 9.6, 11.106
butterfly, 12.61
buttocks, 2.42, 2.62, 3.53, 6.56, 11.43, 11.99
buying, 1.29, 1.72, 2.20, 2.63, 2.68, 4.26, 4.72, 4.79, 5.43, 5.58, 6.12, 6.50, 6.82, 7.16, 7.75, 8.10, 8.13, 9.21, 9.100, 10.29, 10.31, 10.80, 10.97, 11.34, 12.16, 12.23, 12.97
Caecuban (excellent wine), 3.26, 12.17
Caelian hills (hills in Rome), 12.18
cake, 11.86
Caledonia (Scotland), 10.44
Camillus (hero who saved Rome from an invasion of Gauls), 1.24
Campania (region near Naples), 9.60
candor/frankness, 8.76, 11.63, 12.35
cannibalism, 4.49, 10.31
Cappadocia (country in what is now central Turkey), 7.30
castration, 2.60
catching/captive, 1.34, 3.96, 7.62, 9.88, 9.96, 11.43, 11.96
Cato ( patrician known for strict morality), 2.89, 11.15
Catullus ( poet and epigrammatist), 2.71, 6.34, 7.14
Cecropian (related to Cecrops, a king of Attica and Athens; thus, Athenian), 6.34
Celt/Celtiberian (member of tribes who lived in central Spain), 10.65, 12.18
Cerberus (three-headed dog that guards the Underworld’s entrance), 5.34
chair, 11.99, 12.18
chalk, 12.61
charcoal, 12.61
chariot racing/charioteer, 6.46, 10.53, 10.74
charm/attraction, 7.25, 8.77, 9.60, 11.45, 12.96
chastity, 1.62, 2.54, 3.86, 4.71, 4.84, 6.45, 6.50, 8.1, 8.54, 9.40, 9.66, 12.97
chatting, 1.89, 3.28, 5.20, 5.34
cheapness, 7.19, 8.10, 9.32, 9.100
cheating, 2.76, 3.57, 4.79, 5.36, 6.56, 11.66
cheek, 2.61, 3.6, 6.52, 7.83, 10.65
chest (of a body), 2.62, 6.56
Chian fig (fig from Chios, a Greek island), 7.25, 12.96
child, 8.31, 9.74, 11.103
childlessness, 10.91, 11.44, 11.83
Cicero (famous politician, advocate, and orator of the Republic), 2.89, 4.16
Cilicia (country on the southern coast of what is now Turkey), 7.30, 8.14
Cinna ( poet known for writing a very difficult poem, Smyrna), 10.21
circumcision, 7.30
Circus (chariot racetrack in Rome), 10.53
city (Rome), 1.73, 4.71, 4.84, 8.61, 11.96
Clashing Rocks (legendary rocks that clashed together at the entrance to the Black Sea, destroying anything that came between them), 7.19, 11.99
Claudius (emperor of Rome, poisoned by his wife Agrippina), 1.20
clay, 9.50, 10.39
Cleopatra (queen of Egypt), 4.59
cleverness/ability, 1.73, 3.57, 5.42, 7.9, 12.87
client, 1.108, 7.62, 8.76, 10.74
clitoris, 1.90, 3.72
cloak, 6.59, 6.82, 7.92, 8.10, 9.32
clothing, 2.39, 2.58, 4.49, 5.79, 9.62, 10.29, 11.99, 12.18, 12.81
coaxing, 2.26, 4.56, 6.23, 11.29, 12.65, 12.97
coldness, 4.34, 5.9, 5.34, 5.64, 5.79, 6.50, 6.59, 7.92, 11.47, 12.17
color, 9.62
Colossus ( giant statue of Emperor Nero), 8.60
column, 11.51
comedy, 6.6
complaining/grumbling, 1.58, 1.89, 3.18, 3.32, 4.81, 6.59, 7.92, 9.8, 10.91, 11.35, 11.40, 11.71, 12.27
complaint to a patron, 1.112, 2.5, 2.54
compliment to a patron, 1.108, 1.111, 2.5, 8.18, 8.77, 9.44, 10.32, 12.9
confessing, 4.49, 6.22, 9.15
consul (one of two chief magistrates elected for a two-year period), 7.79
cook, 3.94, 8.23, 9.81, 10.66, 12.64
Corinth (city in Greece), 10.65
corpse, 3.32, 6.62
correcting, 7.11
Corsica, 11.42
Corycian (from Corycus, a city in Cilicia, in what is now southern Turkey), 3.65
coughing, 1.10, 1.19, 2.26, 11.86
counting, 2.52, 4.22, 5.20, 6.34, 10.23, 10.44, 10.53, 12.34
country (rural area), 8.61, 10.44, 12.18
court case, 2.5, 2.27, 5.20, 8.17, 8.76
courting, 1.10, 2.26, 2.55, 6.50, 12.65
credit, 3.15
crowd, 1.20, 1.73, 1.89, 1.90, 6.34, 6.48, 11.47
cruelty, 8.14, 8.23, 10.66
crystal, 4.22, 8.77, 10.66
cunnilingus, 1.77, 2.28, 3.84, 3.88, 3.96, 4.43, 11.47, 11.85, 12.85
cup, 2.15, 3.49, 4.43, 4.85, 9.25, 10.49, 10.80, 12.69
Cupid (god of love), 11.13
Curius (famous Roman general), 1.24
curl, 2.66, 10.65
curse, 1.20, 8.61, 9.9
curtain, 1.34, 11.45
Cybele (the Great Mother goddess), 4.43
Dacia (eastern European country in the region that now includes Romania), 7.30
Daedalus (inventor who made wings for himself and his son Icarus), 4.49
Daphne (nymph, loved by Apollo, who became a laurel tree), 11.43
darling, 4.87, 5.34, 7.14, 10.53, 11.13
day, 1.19, 2.5, 5.20, 5.34, 6.20, 7.21, 7.46, 9.6, 9.52, 9.62, 10.23, 10.65, 10.74, 11.77, 11.86, 11.88, 12.17, 12.34
deafness, 11.38, 11.108
death, 1.1, 2.26, 2.59, 2.65, 2.80, 3.12, 3.32, 4.16, 4.32, 4.33, 4.70, 4.75, 5.64, 5.76, 6.15, 6.33, 6.52, 6.53, 6.62, 7.21, 8.27, 8.43, 8.69, 8.77, 9.82, 9.85, 10.47, 10.77, 10.90, 11.42, 11.44, 11.46, 11.67, 11.71, 12.40
debt, 2.3, 2.13, 5.42, 9.83, 11.76
deception, 2.76, 3.64, 4.56, 4.76, 5.4, 5.42, 6.57, 7.39, 8.22, 12.51
deformity, 2.33, 3.8, 3.39, 3.72, 4.65, 12.22
delay, 5.20, 5.58, 6.20, 6.30, 6.62
depilation, 2.62, 6.56, 8.43, 10.65, 10.90
Deucalion (one of the two survivors of a great flood sent by Jupiter), 5.53
Diana’s hill (the Aventine hill in Rome, on which there was a temple to Diana), 12.18
diarrhea, 11.88
difficulty, 1.108, 7.85, 12.46
dimple, 7.25
dining/dinner, 1.23, 1.27, 1.59, 1.108, 2.19, 2.27, 2.53, 2.59, 2.79, 3.12, 3.17, 3.27, 3.45, 4.49, 4.83, 5.47, 5.76, 5.79, 6.48, 6.51, 6.53, 7.48, 7.76, 7.78, 8.22, 8.23, 8.79, 9.9, 9.14, 9.19, 9.63, 9.81, 9.85, 9.91, 10.31, 10.59, 11.34, 11.35, 11.57, 11.77, 11.79, 12.17, 12.87
dirtiness, 2.42, 4.34, 6.57, 10.66, 11.15
dish, 2.53, 7.48, 10.29, 11.29
dislike/hatred, 1.23, 1.27, 1.32, 3.76, 4.83, 4.87, 6.59, 6.60, 6.86, 7.21, 7.43, 10.22, 12.13
doctor, 1.30, 1.47, 5.9, 6.53, 6.86, 7.18, 9.96, 10.77, 11.28, 11.71, 11.86
dog, 1.83, 3.32, 3.55, 5.34
dole, 1.59, 3.14, 9.85, 10.27
doll, 4.20
door, 1.34, 4.29, 7.62, 11.45, 12.18
dove, 7.14, 10.65, 12.31, 12.65
dowry, 2.65, 12.42, 12.97
draft (of air), 5.79
draft (of beverage), 1.71, 3.22, 10.49, 12.27
dream, 6.53
drinking/drunkenness, 1.27, 1.28, 1.37, 1.71, 1.77, 1.106, 2.73, 2.89, 3.49, 3.68, 4.43, 4.85, 5.4, 5.76, 6.86, 7.79, 9.87, 9.96, 10.47, 10.49, 12.12, 12.17, 12.27, 12.40, 12.76
drought, 3.57
drowning, 1.106, 4.63, 5.53
dwarf, 12.93
dyed hair, 3.43, 4.36
eagle, 10.65, 10.100
ear, 1.89, 2.83, 3.28, 4.41, 6.82, 9.83
earth/soil, 3.65, 5.34, 5.74, 6.18, 6.52, 9.60, 9.91, 11.14
easiness, 1.57, 3.69, 7.85, 9.32, 12.46
eating, 1.20, 2.51, 9.63, 10.31
eel, 12.31
effeminate man/catamite, 3.73, 4.43, 6.16, 6.50, 9.62, 10.40, 12.16
elegy, 5.34, 6.52, 11.13
eloquence, 5.59, 7.9, 7.46, 7.91
Elysium (dwelling of the blessed in the Underwo
rld), 7.14
emperor/Caesar/leader/Augustus, 1.20, 1.89, 2.59, 2.92, 4.27, 4.63, 5.2, 5.64, 6.34, 6.91, 6.91, 7.21, 8.1, 8.31, 8.56, 9.66, 9.83, 9.91, 12.9, 12.65
Enclosure (Saepta Julia, a collection of fashionable shops in Rome), 10.80
end, 9.69, 10.1
enjoyment/joy, 6.91, 10.21, 10.23, 10.44, 12.18, 12.34
entrails, 11.57
envy, 1.40, 2.61, 4.27, 7.62, 8.61, 10.9, 10.53
equal, 8.18, 8.35, 12.58
erection, 3.70, 3.73, 3.76, 6.36, 9.66, 12.86
estate/villa (country property), 1.84, 11.34
eunuch, 2.54, 10.52, 10.91, 11.72, 11.75, 11.81
Evadne (wife famous for burning herself on her husband’s pyre), 4.75
excretion/excrement, 1.37, 1.83, 3.17, 3.89, 9.69, 11.77, 12.61
excuse, 3.18
executioner/torturer, 2.17, 2.61
exhibitionism 1.34, 7.62
expense, 1.37, 1.58, 1.117, 2.17, 2.63, 3.37, 3.54, 4.26, 4.29, 9.100, 11.38, 12.13, 12.76
extravagance, 2.63, 2.89, 3.22, 9.82
eye, 2.33, 3.8, 3.39, 4.65, 9.25, 9.83, 11.29, 12.22, 12.23
face, 2.83, 2.87, 3.3, 3.51, 3.53, 3.87, 3.89, 6.23, 6.34, 7.18, 7.25, 7.83, 9.25, 9.74, 10.32, 10.66, 11.102, 11.103, 12.42, 12.64
Falernian (considered one of the best Roman wines), 1.71, 5.64, 8.77, 10.66, 12.17
fame, 1.1, 4.44, 4.63, 4.75, 8.18, 10.9, 11.13
famine, 3.22, 5.76
farm/farming, 1.17, 2.38, 4.79, 5.42, 9.21, 11.14
farting, 4.87, 7.18, 12.40
fate/the Fates, 2.65, 6.62, 10.53, 10.61
father, 1.33, 1.84, 3.6, 4.16, 4.70, 5.34, 6.62, 9.74, 9.87, 10.102, 11.103
fear, 1.24, 2.60, 3.51, 3.70, 5.34, 5.46, 8.14, 9.74, 10.23, 10.47, 10.94, 12.61, 12.91
fellatio, 1.94, 2.28, 2.33, 2.50, 2.61, 2.70, 2.73, 2.83, 2.89, 3.73, 3.83, 3.87, 3.88, 3.96, 4.12, 4.17, 4.50, 4.84, 9.4, 9.40, 9.63, 9.67, 9.80, 11.30, 11.40, 11.46, 11.66, 12.79
fever, 5.9, 10.77, 12.17
field, 1.17, 1.105, 5.42, 9.21, 9.60, 10.43, 12.16, 12.31
fierceness, 4.49, 9.9, 9.25, 10.64
fig, 7.25, 12.96
finger, 2.28, 6.23, 6.82, 11.37, 11.46
finishing, 3.79, 9.69
fire, 3.65, 4.44, 4.47, 4.75, 5.42, 6.33, 10.47, 10.66, 10.97, 11.43, 11.93
fish, 2.78, 3.45, 4.56, 7.78, 9.14, 10.31
Flaminian Way (road leading north from Rome), 11.13
flask (of wine), 4.43, 4.69, 9.87, 10.45, 12.91
flattery, 2.27, 2.55, 10.45
fleeing, 2.80, 3.45, 4.22, 5.83, 6.33, 9.88, 11.43
flesh, 1.13, 11.102
flour, 8.16
flower, 3.65, 4.13, 9.60
flute, 11.75
fog, 6.59, 6.59
food, 1.20, 3.12, 3.17, 3.45, 3.89, 3.94, 4.29, 7.25, 7.78, 8.22, 9.14, 10.47, 11.108, 12.17, 12.18, 12.81
fool, 8.13, 12.93
foot, 7.39, 10.81, 10.100, 11.46, 11.71
foreigner, 7.30, 11.96
Fortune ( goddess of luck), 4.51, 5.42, 6.79, 12.10
Forum, 5.20
fountain (aqueduct), 5.20, 11.96
fox, 10.100
free (of cost), 1.29, 1.95, 7.75, 10.29, 11.62, 11.83
freeborn, 3.33, 4.83
freedman/freedwoman, 3.33, 7.62
freedom, 2.53, 2.68, 9.87
friend/friendship, 1.54, 2.30, 3.37, 3.41, 4.15, 4.24, 5.42, 7.70, 8.14, 8.18, 8.79, 9.14, 9.52, 10.44, 10.47, 11.44, 11.88, 12.30, 12.34, 12.56, 12.69
frigidity, 3.34
frown, 1.40, 10.64
game, 10.16, 12.40
Ganymede (Trojan prince and catamite of Jupiter), 3.39, 9.25, 10.66, 11.43
garden, 3.68, 8.40, 9.60, 12.31
garland/wreath, 3.65, 5.64, 7.89, 8.77, 9.40, 9.60, 11.89, 12.17
gazelle, 10.65
generosity, 4.56, 5.52, 7.79, 8.56, 10.27, 12.65
genuineness, 11.44, 12.69
giant, 9.50
gift-giving, 1.10, 1.111, 2.10, 2.30, 2.39, 3.6, 4.27, 4.56, 4.72, 4.83, 5.52, 5.59, 5.68, 5.73, 6.30, 6.62, 7.16, 7.46, 7.77, 7.78, 7.89, 7.91, 8.5, 8.27, 8.41, 8.56, 9.53, 9.88, 9.102, 10.29, 11.57, 11.89, 11.105, 12.31, 12.56, 12.65, 12.81
girl, 1.57, 1.84, 2.66, 3.33, 3.65, 3.69, 3.76, 3.84, 3.96, 4.71, 4.81, 5.2, 5.34, 6.16, 6.66, 7.14, 7.70, 7.91, 8.5, 9.32, 9.40, 9.67, 10.29, 10.90, 11.15, 11.25, 11.45, 11.51, 11.60, 11.64, 11.81, 12.58, 12.86, 12.95, 12.97
giving, 3.41, 3.65, 4.15, 4.51, 4.71, 5.42, 5.82, 7.43, 7.76, 7.91, 9.52, 9.66, 11.29, 11.67, 12.10, 12.12, 12.13, 12.71, 12.79, 12.96
glass, 1.37, 4.22, 4.85, 8.14
glory, 4.63, 10.53, 10.64
gluttony, 1.20, 3.17, 3.22, 9.9, 11.86, 12.64
god ( general), 3.3, 4.21, 4.44, 4.51, 4.77, 5.64, 7.21, 9.25, 9.66, 9.91, 11.57, 11.60, 11.93
gold, 1.37, 2.53, 3.26, 5.59, 6.86, 8.18, 9.4, 10.49, 10.74, 11.29, 12.18, 12.65
goodbye, 2.92, 5.66, 9.6, 11.108
goodness, 1.16, 1.113, 2.12, 6.50, 6.55, 6.82, 7.81, 10.23, 10.54, 11.34, 12.34, 12.51, 12.80
Gorgon (snake-haired monster who could turn people who saw her to stone), 9.25
gossip/rumor, 1.90, 3.73, 3.87, 4.16, 4.69, 6.56, 7.62
gout, 7.39
grass, 3.65, 12.31
greasiness, 10.45, 10.66
greatness, 1.9, 3.41, 7.21, 9.50, 11.68, 10.21, 12.93
greed, 2.56, 4.56
Greek, 9.44, 11.42
green, 4.44, 10.29, 10.44
greeting, 1.108, 2.67, 2.68, 4.83, 5.66, 7.39, 9.6, 11.106
groaning, 1.106, 10.80, 11.71, 11.99, 12.17
grove/wood, 8.40, 12.18, 12.31
guardian/guarding, 1.73, 3.68, 6.16, 7.91, 8.40, 12.34
guest, 1.20, 1.23, 2.19, 2.79, 3.12, 4.79, 8.14, 9.25, 9.85, 9.89, 10.27
gymnasium, 3.68
hair, 1.24, 1.72, 2.62, 2.66, 3.43, 3.65, 4.7, 4.36, 5.64, 5.68, 6.12, 6.16, 6.52, 6.56, 6.57, 7.89, 8.77, 10.65, 10.66, 11.89, 12.7, 12.18, 12.23, 12.45, 12.64, 12.84, 12.97
hairdressing, 2.66
hand, 2.21, 3.51, 3.53, 3.68, 5.9, 6.23, 6.34, 6.52, 6.60, 7.11, 8.40, 10.66, 11.29, 11.99, 12.95
hanging, 4.77, 8.61
happiness, 2.4, 3.6, 4.75, 4.77, 6.33, 10.23, 10.47, 12.9, 12.18, 12.34, 12.84
harm, 5.76, 6.51, 6.59, 10.77, 11.76, 11.102, 12.56
head, 2.42, 2.61, 2.66, 2.70, 3.43, 6.57, 8.47, 8.77, 11.46, 12.7, 12.45
healthiness, 1.77, 6.84, 7.18, 7.39, 10.22, 10.47
hearing, 1.63, 7.92, 8.76, 9.81, 11.38, 11.102
heart, 7.14, 9.14, 10.16, 10.32, 12.34
hearth, 8.40, 10.44, 12.18
heaven/sky, 4.21, 9.91
heaviness, 5.34, 11.14
Hector (Trojan hero in The Iliad ), 10.90
Hecuba (Trojan queen, mother of Hector), 3.32, 3.76, 10.90
heir, 4.33, 5.32, 6.86, 10.97, 11.14, 12.73
Helen (unfaithful wife of Menelaus in The Iliad ), 1.62
Helicon (mountain sacred to the Muses), 10.64
Hercules (also called Alcides, deified hero, a son of Jupiter), 4.44, 7.13, 9.25, 9.44, 11.43
hiding, 3.87, 4.22, 4.32, 5.58, 6.57, 9.25, 12.18, 12.45
hill, 7.13, 12.18
home/house, 1.84, 1.108, 1.117, 2.5, 2.53, 4.16, 4.44, 5.20, 5.42, 5.47, 6.18, 8.1, 10.44, 10.61, 10.80, 11.29, 11.34, 11.93, 12.17, 12.31
Homer (poet who wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey), 7.46
honey, 4.13, 4.32, 11.42, 11.86
honor, 1.111, 4.27, 11.50, 11.51
Horace (poet known for writing satires and odes), 8.18
horn (trumpet) , 10.64
horse, 7.30, 10.9
host, 9.85
hour, 1.113, 2.67, 10.44, 10.74, 11.29, 11.77, 11.79, 12.18
hunger, 1.59, 2.51, 3.12, 3.14, 3.22, 9.80
huntsman, 12.18
husband, 1.13, 1.62, 1.74, 2.83, 3.70, 4.22, 4.58, 4.75, 6.22, 8.12, 8.35, 8.43, 9.15, 9.40, 9.78, 10.95, 11.71, 12.91, 12.93, 12.95, 12.96, 12.97
Hyacinthus (Spartan boy, loved by Apollo), 11.43
> Hybla (town in Sicily famous for its honey), 10.74, 11.42
Hygia (goddess of health), 11.60
Hylas (boy loved by Hercules), 9.25, 11.28, 11.43
Hymen (god of marriage), 4.13
Hymettus (mountain in Attica, Greece, known for producing good honey), 6.34, 11.42
hypocrisy, 1.33, 2.26
hysteria, 11.71
Iberian (native tribe of Spain), 10.65, 12.9, 12.18
idleness, 5.20, 10.44, 12.18
illness, 1.89, 2.5, 3.18, 5.9, 8.25, 9.85, 11.86, 12.56
impotence, 1.46, 3.73, 6.23, 7.18, 8.31, 10.91, 11.25, 11.29, 11.46, 11.60, 11.81, 12.86, 12.97
incense, 1.111, 3.65
incest, 2.4, 4.16, 12.20
informer, 11.66
ingratitude, 6.79, 6.86
inheritance, 2.65, 4.70, 10.47
innocence/naïveté, 9.40, 10.47, 12.51
insanity, 1.20, 2.66, 2.80, 3.76, 4.43, 4.49, 4.63, 6.84, 7.25, 11.28, 12.47
insolence, 2.68, 10.9
interest (on a loan), 5.42, 11.108
iron, 12.18
Isis (Egyptian goddess, identified with Io), 11.47
ivory, 1.72, 7.13, 12.84
jaw, 8.47
joke, 2.4, 2.22, 4.49, 5.2, 6.82, 10.64
judge, 2.13
judgment, 3.26, 3.27, 7.78
Juno (queen of the gods), 11.43
Jupiter/Jove (king of the gods), 9.91, 10.66, 11.43, 11.57
Juvenal (satirist and friend of Martial), 7.91, 12.18
kidskin, 12.45
killing, 1.106, 9.15, 10.61, 11.29
kindness, 2.71, 4.7, 6.59
king/kingdom, 2.53, 4.59, 12.31
kissing, 1.94, 2.10, 2.12, 2.21, 2.22, 2.23, 2.33, 3.65, 4.22, 5.46, 6.34, 6.50, 6.66, 10.22, 12.65, 12.93
knight, 1.84, 5.17, 8.5, 10.27
knowing, 1.112, 1.113, 2.73, 3.68, 3.72, 5.20, 6.79, 7.92, 8.27, 10.9, 10.16, 11.25, 11.35, 11.64, 11.67, 11.87
Ladas (famous Olympic runner), 10.100
Lampsacus (city on the Hellespont, known for its cult of Priapus), 11.51
largeness, 2.51, 6.36, 7.62, 11.51, 11.72, 11.99, 12.93, 12.96
lateness, 5.58, 11.79, 12.18
laughing, 1.58, 1.89, 2.28, 2.53, 2.58, 6.55, 7.18, 9.44, 9.67, 10.80, 11.15
laurel, 1.108, 5.4, 8.1
Laurentum (coastal town south of Rome), 10.45
law, 2.60, 5.75, 6.22, 6.91, 9.89
lawsuit, 10.47, 12.97
lawyer/advocate, 1.17, 1.95, 2.13, 2.27, 2.30, 4.16, 5.33, 8.16, 8.17, 8.76, 11.30
lead (mineral), 1.72, 6.55, 7.25, 10.22, 10.49
leg, 2.62, 3.51, 3.53, 6.56, 10.65, 10.100, 11.37
legacy, 2.76, 4.70, 5.32, 9.8, 11.67