# Ora Maritima/Preparations/Boys' Amusements

IV. Boys’ Amusements.
§12.
| dēlectāmentum | amusement [delight] |
| puerōrum | of boys |
| amīcus | friend |
| duo puerī | two boys |
| Marcus | Mark |
| puer | a boy |
| quattuor-decim | four-teen |
| annus | year |
| quattuordecim annōrum | of fourteen years, i.e. fourteen years old |
| mihi | to me |
| praecipuus | chief, especial, particular |
| Calēdonia | Scotland |
| (puerī) oriundī | (boys) sprung |
| nōbīs puerīs sunt | to us boys there are (= we boys have; cf. patruo meo est, §9) |
| condiscipulus | schoolfellow |
| līber scholīs | free from lessons |
| amīcitia | friendship |
| ūnā | together |
| unda spūmifera | a foamy wave |
| natō | I swim, bathe |
| nimis | too |
| (undae) asperae | rough (waves) |
| nōs puerōs | us boys |
| lūdus | game |
| pila | ball [pill] |
| ut | how |
| iuvat | it delights |
| aedificāre | to build |
| contrā undās | against the waves |
For the forms in -āre see §8: spectāre, to see. ​

### §13.§13.

| plēnae gaudiōrum | full of joys |
| ā māne | from morn |
| usque ad vesperum | right on till eve [vespers] |
| nōnnumquam | sometimes (lit. not never) |
| Petrus | Peter |
| adulescentulus | a young man |
| vīgintī | twenty |
| rēmus | oar |
| (scapha) apta | (a boat) fitted, adapted |
| plērumque | mostly, generally |
| rēmigō | I row |
| dō | I set (cf. §5, give) |
| ventus asper | a rough wind |
| gubernō | I steer [govern] |
| ministrō | I attend [minister] |
| laudō | I praise |
Second Declension-continued. :
| Nouns and Adjectives like ‘puer’ |||||
| (i.e., without the ending -us or -um in the Nom. Sing.) |||||
| ”SINGULAR.” | ”SINGULAR.” | ”SINGULAR.” | ”PLURAL.” | ”PLURAL.” |
| 1 | | puer, a boy | | puerī, boys |
| 2 | | puer, o boy | | puerī, o boys |
| 3 | | puerum, a boy | | puerōs, boys |
| 4 | | puerī, a boy’s | | puerōrum, boys’ |
| 5 | | puerō, to a boy | | puerīs, to boys |
| 6 | cum | puerō, with a boy | cum | puerīs, with boys |
There are not many nouns declined like ‘puer’. Vesper, evening or evening star, is like it for the most part, but has no Plural. There are, however, a few adjectives (not many) declined like ‘puer’ in both Singular and Plural, for instance: līber free; miser, unhappy, miserable; asper, rough; spūmifer, foamy, foam-bearing and other words compounded of fer, bearing. ​ §14.
☞ In this and the following Preparations the nouns of the Second Declension like puer will be given in the Nom. Sing., except when a whole phrase is quoted.
| locus | place |
| fābula | play, drama [fable] |
| commemorātus | mentioned [commemorated] |
| Leir | Lear |
| rēgulus | ruler, petty king |
| fortūna misera | unhappy fate [miserable fortune] |
| dēplōrō | I deplore, lament |
| stultitia | folly |
| culpō | I blame |
| animus ingrātus | ingratitude (lit. an ungrateful mind) |
| accūsō | I accuse |
| fortūna aspera | harsh fate |
| fīliae impiae | unnatural [impious] daughters |
| constantia | constancy |
| ex poētā nōminātus | named after (from) the poet; i.e. Shakspere's cliff |
| vir generōsus | a man of noble birth, a nobleman [generous] |
| amīcus fīdus | a faithful friend |
| dē scopulō | down from the cliff |
| sē praecipitāre | to hurl himself [precipitate] |
| parō | I prepare |
| fīlius suus | his own son |
| virum servat | saves the man [preserves] |
| perīculum | peril, danger |
Vir. :
| SINGULAR. | SINGULAR. | SINGULAR. | PLURAL. | PLURAL. |
| 1 | | vir, a man | | virī, men |
| 2 | | vir, o man | | virī, o men |
| 1 | | virum, a man | | virōs, men |
| 1 | | virī, a man’s | | virōrum, men’s |
| 1 | | virō, to a man | | virīs, to men |
| 6 | cum | virō, with a man | cum | virīs, with men |
There is no other word in Latin exactly like ‘vir’: but ‘Leir’ is declined in the same way in some Latin Histories of the Britons.
* ↑ Note the Ablative without a Preposition, here meaning ‘from’; cf. militiā vacat, §6.
* ↑ Note the Dative meaning ‘for’ (rēmīs, for oars).