Quārta · Unit 1 · Lesson 6
Letters 6.20.1–10: a night at Misenum
Tacitus asks for more. Pliny, seventeen, reads Livy through an earthquake, until the sea draws back and a family friend loses patience.
You will be able to
- Read Letters 6.20.3–10 in extracts
- Recognize a result clause, simple conditions and numbers in -ēnsimus
- Consider how Pliny presents himself
New words
- tremor, tremōris, m. shaking, trembling
- mare, maris, n. sea
- lītus, lītoris, n. shore
- māter, mātris, f. mother