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Pretty Lessons in Verse

for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin, in Easy Rhyme. By Sara Coleridge. The Fourth Edition, with Many Cuts
Coleridge, Sara Coleridge (1802-1852)

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LESSONS IN LATIN.

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[Domus means a house, aula means a hall]

Domus means a house, aula means a hall,
Janua's a gate, paries a wall;
Porta means a door, mensa means a table,
Tectum means a roof, stabŭlum a stable;
A tower is called turris, a window fenestra,
A wrestling, the place where men wrestle, palæstra.
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