70B Flashcards
Sed laetum eum atque fidentem et subole et disciplina domus Fortuna destituit.
But fortune deserted him happy and confident in his offspring and discipline of his house.
Iulias, filiam et neptem, omnibus probris contaminatas relegavit; Gaium et Lucium in duodeviginti mensium spatio amisit ambos, Gaio in Lycia, Lucio Massiliae defunctis.
He banished the Julia, his daughter and granddaughter, having been infected with all depravity; he lost both Gaius and Lucius in the span of 18 months with Gaius having died in Lycia, (and) Lucius having died in Massilia.
Aliquanto autem patientius
mortem quam dedecora suorum tulit.
He however took their death somewhat more patiently than he dealt with the shame of his own (daughter and granddaughters).
Nam Gai Lucique casu non adeo fractus, de filia absens ac libello per quaestorem recitato notum senatui fecit abstinuitque congressu hominum diu prae pudore; etiam de necanda deliberavit.
Having been broken not very much by the death of Gaius and Lucius, but he, being absent, informed to the senate, about his daughter and by a letter having been recited through the quaestor and he stayed away from the gathering of men for a while on account of shame and he deliberated about killing Julia.
Certe cum sub idem tempus una ex consciis
liberta Phoebe suspendio vitam finisset, maluisse se ait Phoebes patrem fuisse.
Certainly, that when at that same time one of her confidantes, a freed woman, Phoebe, had finished her life by hanging herself, he said that he would have preferred to have been Phoebes father.
