The document is a dialogue in Latin describing two characters discussing their homes. It includes floor plans of their houses labeling different rooms like bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, and living rooms. They compare the sizes of their homes, with one character noting that the other's house is bigger. Furniture items are then listed with the character stating what room each would be found in using Latin declensions.

1. ROMAN
EXPRESSIONS
v

2. Ubi habitas?
where do you
live?
Habito in aedibus, et tu? Ego habito in insula.

3. Quot conclavia domus habet ?
How many rooms does your home have?
3 cubicula
(bedrooms)
culina
(kitchen) 3 balnea
(bathrooms)
cenaculum
(dining- room)
2 mediana
peristylum cum
(living-rooms) horto et piscina
(courtyard with
garden and
swimming pool)

4. magna (parva)
domum habes!
Recte dicis! habet tria tabulata:
pedeplana, secundum et
You’ve got
subterraneum. a big (small)
house!
you’re right! It has three floors:
first floor, second floor and
basement

5. Quomodo tua domus est?
What’s your house like culina
(kitchen)
2 cubicula
(bedrooms)
cenaculum
(dining- room)
medianum
(living-room)
Tua domus minor
(maior) est quam
mea!
tablinum 2 balnea
(study) (bathrooms)
Your house is smaller (bigger)
than mine

6. And now ...
do you want to play with Latin?
I’m sure you do
so, let’s play !

7. Ubi sunt haec supellectiles ?
Where are these pieces of furniture?
let’s end the name of the room in -o, -a (singular) and -is (plural)
culina : in culina / -is
cubiculum : in cubiculo / -is
balneum : in balneo / -is
tablinum : in tablino / -is
medianum : in mediano / -is
cenaculum : in cenaculo / -is
peristylum : in peristylo / -is

8. Let’s go !

9. lectus
in cubiculo

10. machina
refrigeratoria
in culina

11. cathedra
in mediano

12. mensa
in tablino

13. mensa et
sellae
in cenatorio

14. piscina
in peristylo

15. stibadium
in mediano

16. balneum
pensile
in balneo

17. furnus
in culina

18. cervical
in cubiculo