Rōmae sunt multī poētae. Multās fābulās Latīnē nārrant. Fābulās dē patriā et dē historiā patriae, fābulās praetextātās, Pācuvius et Ennius nārrant. Rōmānī fābulās Ennī et Pacuviī amant. Plautus et Terentius, duo poētae bonī, multās fābulās dē vītā virōrum et fēminārum, fābulās palliātās, nārrant.

Dē gaudiō et dolōre, dē fortūnā bonā et malā nārrant. Plautus dīcit,“Deī virōs quasi pilās habent.” Rōmānī quoque fābulās Plautī et Terentiī amant. Multī Rōmānī fābulās praetextātās et fābulās palliātās in theātrō vident. Fābulās Pācuviī et Ennī nunc nōn habēmus, sed sex fābulās Terentiī et unam et vīgintī fābulās Plautī nunc habēmus.

Vocabulary

(Words not found in LNM 1 Chapters 1,2, and 3

dol·or ōris m sorrow, pain

fēmin·a –ae f woman

fortūn·a –ae f luck, fortune, destiny

gaudi·um -ī n joy

histori·a –ae f history

pil·a –ae f ball, football

Rōmae (loc) in Rome

theātr·um -ī n theater

vīt·a –ae f life

bon·us –a –um good

mal·us –a –um bad

mult·us –a –um much, pl many

palliāt·us –a –um dressed in a cloak like a Greek

praetext·us –a –um dressed in the Roman toga praetexta

sex six

ūnus et vīgintī twenty-one

dīcit (he/she/it) says

Latīnē adv in Latin

quasi adv as, as if

quoque adv also, too