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Question 1

Deinde in Thessalia apud Palaeopharsalum productis utrimque ingentibus copiis dimicaverunt.

Answer 1

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

Question 2

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 2

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 3

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

Answer 3

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

Question 4

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

Answer 4

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 5

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

Answer 5

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

Question 6

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

Answer 6

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 7

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

Answer 7

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

Question 8

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

Answer 8

With this having been seen, Caesar is even said to shed tears, gazing upon the head of so great a man and once his son-in-law