Bonaventure

On Sensation and the Microcosm

Latin Grammar: Vocabulary

Nam per visum intrant corpora sublimia et luminosa et cetera colorata, per tactum vero corpora solida et terrestria, per tres vero sensus intermedios intrant intermedia, ut per gustum aquea, per auditum aerea, per odoratum vaporabilia, quae aliquid habent de natura humida, aliquid de airea, aliquid de ignea seu calida, sicut patet in fumo ex aromatibus resoluto.

Define the following adjectives which describe how our senses perceive things in the sensible world.

1. aerea a. transparent
2. aquea b. colored
3. colorata c. solid
4. humida d. a warm exhalation, a vapor
5. intermedios e. things of the land
6. luminosa f. things of the air
7. solida g. things of a watery nature
8. sublimia h. something full of light
9. terrestria i. that which is in between
10. vaporabilia j. moist

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