55b-d quiz

Question 1

Caesar vacuam urbem ingressus dictatorem se fecit.

Answer 1

Having gone into the empty city, Caesar made himself dictator.

Question 2

Inde Hispaniās petiit.

Answer 2

Then he advanced to Spain.

Question 3

Ibi Pompeiī exercitūs validissimōs et fortissimōs cum tribus ducibus, L. Afraniō, M. Petreiō, M. Varrone, superavit.

Answer 3

There he conquered Pompey’s strongest and bravest armies along with the three leaders, Afranius, Petrius, Varro.

Question 4

Inde regressus in Graeciam transiit, adversum Pompeium dimicavit.

Answer 4

Then having returned, he traveled to Greece, and fought against Pompey.

Question 5

Primō proeliō victus est et fugatus, evasit tamen,

Answer 5

In the first battle he was conquered and having fled, however he escaped,

Question 6

quia nocte interveniente Pompeius sequī noluit,

Answer 6

because with night intervening, Pompey did not want to follow,

Question 7

dixitque Caesar nec Pompeium scire vincere

Answer 7

and Caesar said that Pompey did not know how to conquer

Question 8

et illō tantum diē se potuisse superarī.

Answer 8

and on that day only could he have been conquered.

Question 9

Deinde in Thessalia apud Palaeopharsalum productis utrimque ingentibus copiis dimicaverunt.

Answer 9

Then in Thessaly at Old Pharsalus they fought after leading forward immense troops on both sides.

Question 10

Pompeii acies habuit quadragintia milia peditum, equites in sinistro cornu sexcentos, in dextro quingentios, praeterea totius Orientis auxilia, totem nobilitem, innumeros senatores, praetorios, consulares et qui magnorum iam bellorum victores fuissent.

Answer 10

Pompey’s battle order had 40,000 foot soldiers, 600 horse soldiers on the left flank, on the right 500, besides reinforcements of the entire east, the entire nobility, countless senators, men of praetorian rank, men of consular rank and those who had been victors of great wars already.

Question 11

Caesar in acie sua habuit peditum non integra triginta milia, equites mille.

Answer 11

Caesar had in his battle order not even 30,000 foot soldiers, and 1000 horse soldiers.

Question 12

Numquam adhuc Romanae copiae in unum neque mairoes neque milioribus ducibus convenerant, totum terrarum orbem facile subacturae, si contra barbaros ducerentur.

Answer 12

Never until then had Roman troops come together in one place with neither greater nor better leaders, who would easily subdue the whole wold, if they were led against the barbarians.

Question 13

Pugnatum tum est ingenti contentione, victusque ad postremum Pompeius et castra eius direpta sunt.

Answer 13

Then they fought in a huge struggle and Pompey was defeated in the end and his camp was destroyed

Question 14

Ipse fugatus Alexandriam petiit, ut a rege Aegypti, cui tutor a senatu datus fuerat propter iuvenilem eius aetatem, acciperet auxilia.

Answer 14

He himself having put himself to flight, sought for Alexandria, in order to recieve reinforcements from the king of Egypt to whom he had been a tutor given by the senate because of his young age.

Question 15

Qui fortunam magris quam amicitam secutus occidit Pompeium, caput eius et an anulum Caesari misit.

Answer 15

He having followed fortion more than friendship killed Pompey, and sent his head and ring to Caesar

Question 16

Quo conspecto Caesar etiam lacrimas fudisse dicitur, tanti viri intuens caput et generi quondam sui

Answer 16

After he saw this Caesar is even said to shed tears, gazing upon the head of so great a man and once his son-in-law

Question 17

Inde Caesar bellis civilibus per totum orbem compositis Romam rediit.

Answer 17

Then Caesar returned to Rome after he had settled the civil wars throughout the entire world.

Question 18

Agere insolentius coepit et contra consuetudinem Romanae libertatis.

Answer 18

He began to act rather arrogantly and against the practice of Roman freedom.

Question 19

Cum ergo et honores ex sua voluntae praestaret, qui a populo antea deferebantur, nec senatui ad se venienti adsurgeret aliaque regina ac paene tyrannica faceret, coniuratum est in eum a sexginta vel amplius senatoribus equitibusque Romanis.

Answer 19

Therefore when he was bestowing honors from his own will, which previously were given by the people, and when he was not standing for the senate coming toward him and when he was doing other king-like and almost tyrannical things, a conspiracy was made against him by sixty or more senators and business people.

Question 20

Praecipui fuerunt inter coniuratores duo Bruti ex eo genere Bruti, qui primus Romanae consul fuerat et reges expulerat, et C. Cassius et Servilius Casca.

Answer 20

Notable men among the conspirators were two Bruiti from that family of Brutus, who had been the first consul of Rome and had driven out the kings, and Gaius Cassius and Servilius Casca.

Question 21

Ergo Caesar, cum senatus die inter ceteros venisset ad Curiam, tribus et viginti vulneribus confossus est.

Answer 21

Caesar therefore when he had come to the senate building amongst other men on the day of the senate he was stabbed with twenty three wounds.

Question 22

Anno urbis septingentesimo fere ac nono interfecto Caesare civilia bella reparata sunt.

Answer 22

In almost the 709th year of the city after Caesar was killed the civil war was renewed.

Question 23

Percussoribus enim Caesar senatus favebat.

Answer 23

The senate was favoring the assasians of Caesar

Question 24

Antonius consul partium Caesaris civilibus bellis opprimere eos conabatur

Answer 24

Antonius the consul being of Caesar’s party tried to oppress them

Question 25

Ergo turbata re publica multa Antonius scelera committens a senatu hostis iudicatus est.

Answer 25

Therefore with the state having been upset Antonius comitting many crimes was judged an enemy by the senate.

Question 26

Missi ad eum persequendum duo consules, Pansa et Hirtius et Octavianus adulescens annos decem et octo natus, Caesaris nepos, quem ille testamentos heredem reliquerat et nomen suum ferre issuerat.

Answer 26

Pansa and Hirtius, two consuls, were sent in persuit of him and Octanvian the young man 18 years old, Caesar’s nephew, whom by his will he left as heir and ordered to take his name.

Question 27

Hic est, qui postea Augustus est dictus et rerum potitus.

Answer 27

This man, who after was called Agustus and became emperor

Question 28

Qui profecti contra Antonium tres duces vicerunt eum.

Answer 28

The three leaders set out against Antonius overcame him.

Question 29

Evenit tamen ut victores consules ambo morerentur

Answer 29

It happened however that the consuls were both victorious and killed.

Question 30

Quare tres exercitus uni Caesari Agusto paruerunt

Answer 30

Therefore, the three armies were subjected to the one Augustus Caesar.