Iuvenis et hirundo

I'm using some new crossword puzzle software (online, fast, easy) to create new puzzles to go with the new Aesop's fables I'm posting at LatinViaFables.com.

Today's fable at Latin Via Fables is Iuvenis et hirundo: Young Man and Swallow. You can visit the Latin Via Fables page to see the Latin text, English translation and some grammar help.

Word List. Here is an alphabetical word list of the Latin words included in the puzzle:

aestas, augur, augurium, avicula, bruma, decoquere, delitescere, enecare, exuere, frigor, hirundo, infelix, integer, iuvenis, mortuus, pecunia, popina, temulentus, vestimentum, vestitus

Click here to get the crossword puzzle to print and fill in.

Click here to get the crossword puzzle solution.

Here are the clues:

ACROSS

2 Eating house, tavern
3 Summer
7 Clothing, clothes
9 Soothsayer, seer
12 Money
14 To boil away, squander
16 To take off, strip
17 Cold
18 To take refuge, hid
19 Little bird
20 Young man

DOWN

1 Dead
4 Swallow (bird)
5 Omen, prophecy
6 To kill off
8 Entire, whole
10 Unlucky, unhappy
11 Garment, clothing
13 Drunken, tipsy
15 Winter, winter cold

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