05 Minimus II - Moving on in Latin

T

Use y~urknowledge

of Latin to work

.

0

meamng

of the unde lined

ut the

word

In each sentence.

We parked in the

multi-storey car park.

.

If we go to the

multi12lex

we can

choose

which film we

CInema

want

to watch.

Now

that I

am stud

in

L

.

and

Italian I am becoming

y

g

atIn, French

multi-lingual.

Most

of our

big cities are multi-racial

.

25 by

4.

To

ma~e lOO, we multi12ly

Why dId the film pr

d

I

gladiator "Maximus"?

o

ucer ca I the famous

ROMAN REPORT

Eboracum (York)

and his

family

About

one hundred

years after Flavius

became

one of the most

came to live there, Eboracum

as a

.

It began

important

Roman

towns

in Britain

the end

of the

towards

wooden

fortress for soldiers

up

grew

AD. Then

a small settlement

first century

for

accommodation

outside

the fortress;

this provided

who followed

the

and families

traders

the merchants,

began.

Roman

towns

many

troops.

This

is how

in the

family are seeing Eboracum

Flavius

and the

development

. The buildings

very early stages of its

and

outside

the fortress

are made of wood, or wattle

and

selling

their products

daub.

There are craftsmen

River Ouse from

many

more

goods

come

up the

Empire

.

On the

far

side of

of the

Roman

parts

various

one

.

Each

of warehouses

the river there is a series

there is one for

stores different items, for example

wool

and one for grain

(a granary).

near the

house

Flavius

and his

family

have

a big

are plans to build a new

. There

military fortress

Flavius's

new job

is to supervise

fortress

out of

stone.

new military

of this

and design

the planning

that the

.

When

the local people realise

headquarters

by a stone

to be

replaced

old wooden

fortress is going

.

one, they

know

that the

Roman

army

is here

to stay

ROMAN REPORT

Ar chaeologists wor kin g in

Eboracum h

about the gr an ar y. W hen the

ex

.

av e foun d out a gr eat deal

carefully un der a micr osco

yth ammed ther emain s of the gr ain

in it. It seems that thl·S

gr a.

pe,

ey C

bOU ld clear ly see dead beetles

.

m was so

adl

.

m the for tr ess decided it would b

e

b

Y mfested that the soldier s

an d star t again . They put down

est to pull down the gr an ar y

a layer of clay an d then star ted

to build then ew gr an ar y. It too

was made of wood an d

un fortun ately, it appea

s tha

t it

:

burn t down . Ar chaeologists

hav e foun d the remain s of a lot

o burn t gr ain in Ebor acum.

I mber buildin gs wer e always at

ns but ston e gr an ar ies wer en ot

built un til later .