esurio: I am hungry
Minimus and Minima can't wait for their cena (dinner); they are nibbling on a panicellus (little loaf) shaped like a ramulus (twig). Who will reach the middle first?
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audio: I hear
Minimus is Ulixes (Odysseus), tied to the malus (mast) so he can hear the carmen Sirenis (the Siren's song) without jumping overboard. Minima is one of his nautae (sailors), her ears obturatas (plugged) so she can row away from periculum (danger). The Siren is not impressed!
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tollo: I lift
Minimus is holding up his sigillarium (pottery figurine). He particularly likes its little bracchia (arms) and crura (legs) which are articulata (jointed) so he can make it dance!
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indico: I point out
Minimus and Minima have found a strange ligneum (wooden thing) in the garden, pigmento aureo inductum (painted gold). They squeak excitedly while pointing it out inter se (to each other). quid est (what is it)? mures nesciunt (the mice don't know).
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demitto: I drop
Minimus has dropped a lapillus (pebble)
into the stagnum (pond) so he can watch the flucticuli (ripples).
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domo: I tame
The little passer (sparrow) was an avis fera (wild bird) when Minimus first met him, but he soon learned to take frumentum (grain) from the mouse's paw, and now they are amicissimi (great friends).
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suspendo: I hang up
Minimus and Minima are hanging up a linea (string) of vexilla flava (yellow flags) on the rami (branches) of the morus (mulberry tree). Are they planning a festum casearium (festival of cheese)?
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calco: I tread
It's time for making vinum (wine), and Minima is treading the uvas (grapes) in a lacus (tub) because Minimus refused to take of his caligae (boots). At least he is making sure she doesn't slip on the vinacei (grape-skins)!
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nuntio horas: I tell the time
Minimus is using his portable solarium (sundial) to answer the question "quota hora est?" (what's the time?). tempus fugit (time flies)!
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timeo: I fear
Minimus was not expecting to find a serpens (snake) in the herba (grass) - even a very brave mouse would be a little startled! Luckily for him, this snake is not only benevola (friendly) but also factitia (artificial)...
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irrigo: I water
Minimus is watering his arbor novella (seedling) with his new urceus (jug) - he's very proud of the duodecim folia (12 leaves) on the little quercus (oak).
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epulor: I feast
Minimus is entertaining amici (friends); parus (a bluetit) and passer (a sparrow). He is serving amygdalum (an almond), nux avellana (a hazelnut) and panicella (bread rolls) for prima mensa (the first course), then culices (gnats) and caseus (cheese), of course!
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certo: I compete
Minimus is competing in the arena as a retiarius (net-fighter), equipped with a tridens (trident) and rete (fishing net). His opponent is a murmillo, armed with a proper gladius (sword), parma (small shield) and galea (helmet). Luckily, the fight is a simulatio (show) and nemo (nobody) will be hurt!
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tergeo: I wipe
Minimus is a well-mannered mouse, so he's wiping his little caligae (boots) on the storea ianuae (door mat) ...or is it a storea muris (mouse mat)?
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sarcio: I patch
Minimus has torn his subligaria (knickers/underpants), and Minima is carefully sewing on a panniculus (piece of cloth) with an acus (needle) and filum (thread). Minimus only wears his subligaria to compete in the arena or a pugilatio (boxing match), and he needs to look decorus (respectable)!
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planto: I plant a seedling or cutting
Minimus has set a little fragum (strawberry) plant into his new olla perforata (planting pot with holes). He filled the pot with terra (earth) and watered the planta (sprout). Next year there may be sucosi (juicy) fruit!
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premo: I press
Minimus is busy making caseus (cheese) in a forma (cheese press or mould), spooning in coagulum (curds) and pressing out the serum (whey), turning out the cheese, adding sal (salt) and leaving it to ripen in locus frigidus (a cool place). beati sunt artifices casei (blessed are the cheesemakers)!
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moneo: I warn
Minimus has found three aron (wild arum) plants with shiny bacae flammeae (orange-red berries). He warns Minima not to nibble them - venenatae sunt (they are poisonous)!
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lucubro: I work by lamplight
Minimus is writing an epistula (letter) by the light of his lanterna fictilis (pottery lantern). The informatio (draft) is on his tabula cera (wax tablet), and he is copying it in atramentum (ink) on a tabella lignea (wooden tablet).
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como: I arrange hair
Minimus has persuaded Vibrissa* to let him tidy her vibrissae (whiskers) with his scopula (little brush). She's a little incomptis (unkempt) after sleeping in a testa florum (flowerpot) all day!
*Vibrissa is played by Merlin
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