The Times Specialist – Solution List – 26-November-2022
1.A painting (1st), also a fut. ppl. of pingo, pingere
2.Cenare vel consumere, sic mures alienum cibum, Pl. Persa, 58
3.Impressione: in an assault or charge
4.Ardua ____: we toil at tough stuff, Ovid AA 2.537 (royal we here)
5.In the market (4th): in foro, vide Plautus Asinaria 398
6.I fall — compare and contrast with I withdraw
7.Marvellous to recount — narrator’s apostrophe, eg Aen. 1.439
8.I drive, eg herds and flocks, together
9.We’re going to beg, ask, and pray
10.A little adverb
11.Wheels (non negotium agit ut Del Boy sed quae in autocurru tres sunt)
12.Is there any thing? A pronoun of impassioned interrogation
13.____ Atticae, a fascinating miscellany by Aulus Gellius
14.____ dies: Happy Days (f., as the poets so often have it)
15.Caution was allowed: cautio ____ est
16.Adv., actually, for sure
17.Twixt Hope and Fear: inter ____ et metum
18.I, Catullus, and Lesbia loved
19.Catulus risit quod ____ supra lunam saluit?
20.___ et decorum, Hor. Odes 3.2.13, cf. Wilfred Owen’s old lie
21.Web (1st f. nom. sing.), spears (2nd n. nom., acc. pl)
22.Boxing gloves (4th m.), see Aen. 5 passim, the funeral games
23.____ facto: thereby, by that very fact
24.Adv. and prep. with abl., in the presence of
25.Ut haec nuntiem ‘wife’ suae, Plautus Amphit. 195
26.Eg, the queer old dean — it’s literally the tongue’s fault