| A | B |
| Nonis Novembribus | ON November 5 |
| Kalendis Novembribus | ON November 1 |
| -que (attached to the second word joined) | and |
| huc | here |
| Brundisii (locative genitive) | AT Brundisium |
| pridie | on the day before |
| viginti | twenty |
| adulescens adulescentis m | (young) man |
| moratus est | he has stayed |
| regressus est | he has returned |
| Idibus Novembribus | ON November 13 |
| proficiscetur | he will set out |
| libenter | gladly |
| rursus | again |
| sane | certainly, of course |
| qui homines | those men |
| secuti sunt | followed |
| conatus est | tried |
| quo celerius eo celerius | the faster... the faster... |
| tristis is e (declined like OMNIS, IS, E) | sad |
| sis | = si vis, if you wish; if you please |
| persuadeo (1st principal part) | I persuade, am persuading, do persuade |
| persuadere (2nd principal part) | to persuadere |
| persuasi (3rd principal part) | I persuaded, did persuade, have persuaded |
| persuasus (4th principal part) | persuaded, having been persuaded, after being persuaded |