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Question 1

Sed dum Zephyri tranquillo spiritu sublimatae domum redeunt, sic secum altercantes:

Answer 1

But while, raised by the calm breath of zephyr, they returned home, quarrelling in this way with each other

Question 2

‘quid, soror, dicimus de tam monstruoso fatuae illius mendacio?

Answer 2

‘O sister, what are we to say about the such monstrous lie of that fool?

Question 3

tunc adolescens modo florenti lanugine barbam instruens,

Answer 3

Earlier he was a young man building a beard only with blossoming down,

Question 4

nunc aetate media candenti canitie lucidus.

Answer 4

but now in middle age shining with gleaming white hairs.

Question 5

quis ille, quem temporis modici spatium repentina senecta reformavit?

Answer 5

Who is that man whom sudden old age transforms in a short space of time?

Question 6

nil aliud repperies, mi soror, quam vel mendacia istam pessimam feminam confingere vel formam mariti sui nescire;

Answer 6

You will not discover anything else, my sister, than either lies that that worst woman invented or that she does not know the form of her husband:

Question 7

quorum utrum verum est, opibus istis quam primum exterminanda est.

Answer 7

whichever of which is true, she must be banished from that wealth as quickly as possible.

Question 8

quodsi viri sui faciem ignorat, deo profecto denupsit et deum nobis praegnatione ista gerit.

Answer 8

If she doesn’t know the face of her husband, surely she has married a god and that woman carries with that pregnancy a god for us.

Question 9

certe si divini puelli—quod absit— haec mater audierit, statim me laqueo nexili suspendam.

Answer 9

Certainly if this mother hears of the divine children -which is not yet there - immediately I will hang myself with a woven noose.

Question 10

ergo interim ad parentes nostros redeamus et exordio sermonis huius quam concolores fallacias adtexamus.’

Answer 10

Let’s return to our parents and let us weave in the lies which agree with the beginning of this speech.’