The Times Specialist – Solution List – 5-November-2022
1.Let them give! (sounds a little hollow?)
DENT
2.Acorn-bearing (masc. sing. nom.), used in DRN 5.939 (fem. acc. pl.) to describe oaks
GLANDIFER
3.Having turned to poetry …
VERSUS
4.Lapsus, exitium, casus
RUINA
5.Dea fecunda, Saturni coniunx
OPS
6.Caesar’s murderous addressee, ‘et tu, ____?
BRUTE
7.Timeo, paveo, metuo (dep.)
VEREOR
8.Animal semisomnum cui Alicia In Terra Mirabili incidit
GLIS
9.Sicut 17, fortasse illius felis Tom inimicus
MUS
10.A stag’s branching antlers, ____ … cornua cervi, (Virgil Ecl. 7.30)
RAMOSA
11.____ te oro, I entreat you with prayer, vide Hor. Sat. 2.6.13
PRECE
12.Pedetemptim migrat ad confusionem
GRADATIM
13.Memorare, tradere, perferre
NARRARE
14…. Nero pronounces his final self-assessment, ‘____ ____ pereo’ (Suet. Nero 49.1)
QUALIS ARTIFEX
15.More fruitfully, ____ nulli provenit ista seges, vide Ovid Ex Ponto 4.2.12
UBERIUS
16.I go off piste, digredior, decedo
ABERRO
17.Sacred Spring’, a propitiatory offering, see Livy 22.9.10
VER SACRUM
18.Altiore perturbatione – propositio, consilium, rogatio
RELATIO
19.Ordinator, adiutor – praecipue Iovis vocabulum
STATOR
20.____ ____ verus est; Quirinalis ‘is a true head of household’ – plenty of sons but no sign of a wife! (Mart. Epig. 1.84.5)
PATER FAMILIAE
21.Imperatorem … paucitate salutantium ____, describing Otho’s worry at the small numbers hailing him (Tac. Hist. 1.27)
TREPIDUM
22.Likeness, representation – of a perfect insect?
IMAGO
23.Pretium frumentarium, frugum aestimatio
ANNONA
24.Miratur molem Aeneas, ____ quondam, huts which preceded the might of Carthage (Aen. 1.421)
MAGALIA