ACROSS
1 Easily, opp. vix (6)
FACILE
5 Lit. heat of fire and sea swell, metaph. upset of mind (4th decl.) (6)
AESTUS. Can mean both “passion” and “hesitation” figuratively: so much for Latin being a logical language.
8 Supera, ____, suprema (8)
SUPERIOR. No different from the masculine, in this comparative form.
9 I change: vario (4)
MUTO, like a mutant
10 He carries, also she relates (4)
FERT – repeat after me: ferro, ferre, tuli, latus.
11 To inhabit or live in (3rd conj.) (8)
INCOLERE, and not INCOLARE as I incorrectly put. Write it 100 times all over the town square before sunup, lad.
12 May they understand and know: intelligant (6)
SCIANT, like scientists
14 Mirey morass: palus ____ (6)
LIMOSA. A slug is of coursa a LIMAX, which I assume is related somehow.
16 Nanny goats tended by Meliboeus, Virgil Ecl. 1 esp. 74 (8)
CAPELLAE. I got stuck on HIRCINAE, more fool I.
18 Geminorum nutricula et, apud comoedias, meretrix aut scortum (4)
LUPA. A she-wolf, literally or metaphorically.
20 Come here! Vide eg Ter. Hecyra 510 (indic. form is identical) (4)
ADES!
21 I look back or behind, I look around (8)
RESPICIO, in many, if not all, respects
23 We are standing, we do stand firm (6)
STAMUS, as befits our station
24 Walls, and by extension, the city within (3rd decl. n. pl) (6)
MOENIA. Probably related tyo munitions, though I can’t say I’ve checked
DOWN
2 ____ Turbidae: Muddy Waters (5)
AQUAE. Aquae Turbidae just sounds a lot less like a bluesman for some reason.
3 Sloth, lack of skill, and in English now what keeps us going (7)
INERTIA or ART-lessness
4 Masters or master’s (3)
ERI. Erus is not a word I remember coming up a lot but I imagine it is more popular in Latin crosswords
5 Farmers: agros sulcamus et semina bona spargimus (9)
AGRICOLAE, who plough the fields and scatter the good seed on the land.
6 ____, bis, ter (5)
SEMEL. She’s semel, bis, ter a matrona.
7 John Steed and Emma Peel, aka “The Avengers” (ITV 1961-9) (7)
ULTORES, as it was known in ancient syndicated broadcasts.
11 On your tod you will have carried in (trans.) (9)
INTULERIS. Repeat after me again, ferro, ferre, tuli…
13 He limps (2nd intrans.), it will block, shut, bung up (3rd trans.) (7)
CLAUDET. There was a famous Emperor who was a bit of a limper, what was his name again?
15 To soften: macerare, mitigare (7)
MOLLIRE, as in mollified by an emollient.
17 Something drawn not on paper but from a sheath (acc. sing.) (5)
ENSEM, a sword, not to be confused with Belgium’s famous painter.
19 ____ vidistis amantes: you lovers first saw it, Ovid Met. 4.68 (5)
PRIMI (inter pares)
22 “Mi ocule,” inquit mater infantulae, “tu eris quae nunc ego ____” (3)
SUM, and hopefully that does SUM it all up at this point!
Small query, how does “as befits our station” link to “STAMUS”?
Thanks in advance.