6: Medea - filia regis et striga potentissima (princess and powerful witch) - helped Jason, murdered a few people (oops..) and escaped in a currus (chariot) drawn by dracones volatiles (flying snakes)
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 5: Chiron is a centaurus sapientissimus (very wise centaur) who taught young heroes to use arcum sagittisque (a bow and arrows), herbae salutares (healing herbs) and music. 
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 4: Lycaon is the rex impius (impious king) of Arcadia, who served filium suum coctum (his cooked son) to Zeus and Hermes for dinner. Zeus, iratissimus (very angry), turned Lycaon and his followers into lupi (wolves).
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 3: Asterion is the Minotaur; part human,  part taurus (bull) and all anthopophagus (man-eater), in labyrintho inclusus (imprisoned in the labyrinth). Theseus hunts him with a sword and a ball of string (so he doesn't get lost).
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 1: Cassandra - regis filia, sacerdos, divina (princess, priestess, prophet) - doomed to foretell the future but nemo eae credit (no-one believed her). Greek king Agamemnon snatched her from her temple after the fall of Troy.
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 fabulas narro: I tell stories
Minimus and Minima will be exchanging fabulae (stories) for verba (verbs) throughout October. We're taking part in #ClassicsTober with a character from Greek mythology every day! 

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 somnio: I dream
Minimus is asleep in his nidus laneus (woolly nest) under a lodicula virgata (stripy blanket), happily dreaming of a caseus ingens (huge cheese). 
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 prurio: I'm itchy
Minimus seems to have pulices (fleas) biting his lateres (sides)and venter (tummy) - necesse est scalpere (he needs to scratch)! 
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 amicio: I wrap
Minimus, in pyramide (a pyramid) and dressed as an Aegyptius, condit (mummifies) a leo (lion) by wrapping it in fasciae linteae (linen bandages). 
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 tondeo: I shear
Minimus is tidying up the vellus (fleece) of this rather undersized ovis (sheep) with forfices (shears) and gathering the lana (wool) 
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 animadverto: I notice
Minimus suum negotium agebat (was minding his own business) in the culina (kitchen) when he noticed this rana curiosa (inquisitive frog) perched on his venter (tummy)!
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 exspecto: I wait
Minimus is waiting for the helianthus (sunflower) seeds to be maturi (ripe). autumnus (autumn) is on the way, and mures prudentes (wise mice) keep their promptuaria (pantries) filled!
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 pulso: I hit
It's the time of year for Minimus to play conkers, a ludus Brittanicus (British game) with hippocastaneae (horse chestnuts). He's trying to smash the nux adversaria (enemy nut) with his own castanea on its string.
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 milito: I serve as a soldier
Minimus the signifer (standard bearer) with a young recruit. Both are holding up an aquila (eagle), but one of them is carrying a mouse as well!
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 adapto: I fit
Minimus the sutor (shoemaker) has finished a new carbatina (one-piece shoe) for Minima, and he is making sure it fits her pes (foot) before he starts sewing the other. Minima is very happy with the corium caeruleum (blue leather)!
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 quiesco: I rest
Minimus has had a dies negotiosa (busy day) and he's fessus (tired) - he needs a little intermissio (pause) with a potio calida (hot drink)!
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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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