49 Flashcards
age
come now
sit ita factum
suppose it did happen thus
quae causa fuit cur
what reason was there why
Romam properaret
he was hurrying to Rome?
cur in noctem se coniceret
why should he have hurled himself into the night?
quid…festinationis
what urgency
adferebat…quod heres erat
was the fact that he was heir bringing?
primum nihil erat cur
firstly there was no reason at all why
properato opus esset
there was need to hurry/need for haste
deinde si quid esset
secondly, if there were any need
quid tandem erat
what was there, pray
quod…consequi posset
that he could obtain
ea nocte
on that night
amitteret autem
but would lose
postridie…mane
on the following day in the morning
si…Romam…venisset
if he had come to Rome
atqui ut…nocturnus…adventus
but as a night-time arrival
ad urbem
to the city
sic Miloni
in the same way Milo
illi…vitandus…fuit
should have been avoided by that man
potius quam expetendus
rather than sought out
cum insidiator esset
since he was a would-be ambusher [sarcastic]
si illum…sciebat
if he did know that that man
ad urbem noctu…accessurum
was going to come to the city by night
subsidendum atque exspectandum fuit
should have taken up position and lain in wait for him
