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Amorous pg 93
adjective- showing, feeling, or relating to sexual desire.
Ape pg 1
verb- imitate the behavior or manner of (someone or something), especially in an absurd or unthinking way.
Bauble pg 42
noun- a small, showy trinket or decoration.
Courtiers
noun- a person who attends a royal court as a companion or adviser to the king or queen.
Courtesan pg 51
noun- a prostitute, especially one with wealthy or upper-class clients.
Cowslip blossom pg 28
noun- a yellow flower
Derelict pg 33
adjective-in a very poor condition as a result of disuse and neglect.
noun-a person without a home, job, or property.
Doffing pg 45
verb- remove (an item of clothing).
Ducats
noun- a gold coin formerly currency in most European countries.
Foully pg 75
Adverb from foul-offensive to the senses, especially through having a disgusting smell or taste or being unpleasantly soiled.
Gallowses pg 87
noun- a structure, typically of two uprights and a crosspiece, for the hanging of criminals.
Gordion Knot pg.28
In 333 BC, Alexander the Great, on his march through Anatolia, reached Gordium, the capital of Phrygia. There he was shown the chariot of the ancient founder of the city, Gordius, with its yoke lashed to the pole by means of an intricate knot with its end hidden. According to tradition, this knot was to be untied only by the future conqueror of Asia. In the popular account, probably invented as appropriate to an impetuous warrior, Alexander sliced through the knot with his sword, but, in earlier versions, he found the ends either by cutting into the knot or by drawing out the pole. The phrase “cutting the Gordian knot” has thus come to denote a bold solution to a complicated problem.
Jupiter
Jupiter, also called Jove, the chief ancient Roman and Italian god. Like Zeus, the Greek god with whom he is etymologically identical, Jupiter was a sky god.
Jupiter was not only the great protecting deity of the race but also one whose worship embodied a distinct moral conception. He is especially concerned with oaths, treaties, and leagues, and it was in the presence of his priest that the most ancient and sacred form of marriage (confarreatio) took place. This connection with the conscience, with the sense of obligation and right dealing, was never quite lost throughout Roman history.
Malaise pg 53
noun- a general feeling of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult to identify.
Manacle pg 87
noun-a metal band, chain, or shackle for fastening someone's hands or ankles.
Milford Haven
In Welsh Aberdaugleddau, is a historic port in the present county of Pembrokeshire, southwestern Wales. It lies on the north shore of a deep natural harbour of Milford Haven, an inlet of the Celtic Sea.
For many centuries the inlet served as a landing and embarkation point on the route from southwestern Wales to Ireland, but the town was founded only in 1793.
Orléans-
French city and capital of Loiret département, Centre région, north-central France. It is located south-southwest of Paris. The city stands on the banks of the Loire River in a fertile valley on the edge of the Beauce plain.
Orléans, which derives its name from the Roman Aurelianum, was conquered by Julius Caesar in 52 BC.
Paltry pg 4
adjective- (of an amount) small or meager.
Pedigree pg 56
noun-the recorded ancestry, especially upper-class ancestry, of a person or family
Philharmonus pg 102
The name of the soothsayer
Recompense pg 32, 59
verb-make amends to (someone) for loss or harm suffered; compensate.
noun-compensation or reward given for loss or harm suffered or effort made.
Reveller pg 20
noun-a person who is enjoying themselves in a lively and noisy way.
River Severn pg 54
Translated to Welsh is Hafren, Britain’s longest river from source to tidal waters—about 180 miles (290 km) long, with the Severn estuary adding some 40 miles (64 km) to its total length. It drains an area of 4,350 square miles (11,266 square km) with an average discharge at Bewdley of 2,170 cubic feet (61.5 cubic metres) per second.
Saturn
In latin Saturnus, in Roman religion, the god of sowing or seed. The Romans equated him with the Greek agricultural deity Cronus. Saturn’s cult partner was the obscure goddess Lua, whose name is connected with lues (plague or destruction), but he was also associated with Ops, another obscure goddess (perhaps the goddess of abundance), the cult partner of Consus, probably a god of grain storage.
In Roman myth Saturn was identified with the Greek Cronus. Exiled from Olympus by Zeus, he ruled Latium in a happy and innocent golden age, where he taught his people agriculture and other peaceful arts.
Sirrah pg 56
noun- used as a term of address for a man or boy, especially one younger or of lower status than the speaker.
Soothsayer
noun- a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means
Strumpets pg 23
noun- a woman who has many casual sexual encounters or relationships.
Thoroughfare pg 8
noun- a main road in a town.
Tribunes pg 63
noun- an official in ancient Rome chosen by the plebeians to protect their interests.
To the right is the structure of Roman Government in this period.
Unparagoned pg 13
adjective- having no equal or match
venison pg 78
noun- meat from a deer.
In Roman mythology, Venus was the goddess of love, sex, beauty, and fertility. She was the Roman counterpart to the Greek Aphrodite. However, Roman Venus had many abilities beyond the Greek Aphrodite; she was a goddess of victory, fertility, and even prostitution. According to Hesiod's Theogony, Aphrodite was born of the foam from the sea after Saturn (Greek Cronus) castrated his father Uranus (Ouranus) and his blood fell to the sea. This latter explanation appears to be more a popular theory due to the countless artworks depicting Venus rising from the sea in a clam.
Vex pg 77
verb- make (someone) feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried, especially with trivial matters.
Virgin Diana pg 93
Diana, in Roman religion, goddess of wild animals and the hunt, identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. Her name is akin to the Latin words dium (“sky”) and dius (“daylight”). Like her Greek counterpart, she was also a goddess of domestic animals. As a fertility deity she was invoked by women to aid conception and delivery.
Wren pg 10
noun- a small short-winged songbird found chiefly in the New World.
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