| A | B |
| Slave who accompanied the boy to school | paedagogus |
| elementary teacher | 1)litterator 2)Magister ludi |
| secondary level teacher | grammaticus |
| tertiary level teacher (university) | rhetor |
| Poet who was taught by Orbilius "Plagosus" ("The Wacker") | Horace |
| exercise area | palaestra |
| heating system | hypocaust |
| locker room | apodyterium |
| massage room | unctorium |
| hot bath | caldarium |
| popina | snack bar |
| thermopolium | snack bar |
| luke-warm pool | tepidarium |
| laconicum | sauna (dry) |
| natatio | swimming pool |
| tool to scrape off oil | strigil |
| sudatorium | sauna (wet) "suda" means "sweat" |
| largest bath in Rome | Diocletian's |
| 2nd largest bath in Rome | Caracalla's |
| island in middle of track | spina |
| term for lap markers | metae |
| emperor's box | pulvinar |
| starting gates | carceres |
| parade | pompa |
| napkin used to start race | mappa |
| emperor who added gold & purple | Domitian |
| auriga | charioteer |
| riders who jumped from one horse to another | desultores |
| Latin term for lap markers | delphini et ova (dolphins & eggs) |
| number of lap in a race | 7 |
| missus | race/heat |
| quadriga | four horse chariot |
| racing corporations | factiones |
| veneta et prasina | blue & green (team colors) |
| colors for racing teams | red, white, blue & green |
| naufragium | crash (literally "shipwreck") |
| structure for chariot racing | circus |
| term for gladiatorial fights | munera |
| venationes | beasthunts |
| trainer of gladiators | lanista |
| "net man" | retiarius |
| "fish crest" helmet | murmillo |
| lightly armed, short sword, round shield | thrax |
| heavily armed with visored helmet | samnite |
| ceremonial wooden sword | rudis |
| gladiator who is awarded a rudis | rudiarius |
| gods of the cupboard/larder | Penates |
| gods of the household/ancestral gods | Lares |
| central room | atrium |
| opening in roof of central room | compluvium |
| basin in floor of atrium | impluvium |
| outdoor area with columns | peristylium |
| dining room | triclinium |
| shop | taberna |
| "wings" - small room in back or atrium | alae |
| master's study | tablinum |
| entry way "throat" | fauces |
| entry door | ianua |
| bedroom | cubiculum |
| kitchen | culina |
| imagines | death masks of ancestors |
| place where imagines were kept | the alae |
| room between atrium and peristylium | tablinum |
| place where clientes waited to speak to their patron | alae (outside the tablinum) |