Arria 4

Question 1

Deinde apud Claudium uxori Scriboniani, cum illa profiteretur indicium

Answer 1

Then in the presence of Claudius to the wife of Scribonianus, when she was volunteering evidence

Question 2

Egone inquit te audium, cuius in gremio Scribonianus occisus est, et vivis?

Answer 2

She said am I going to listen to you, in whose lap Scribonianus was killed, and you are alive?

Question 3

Ex quo manifestum est ei consilium pulcherrimae mortis non subitum fuisse.

Answer 3

From which it is clear that the idea of a very fine death was not sudden for her.

Question 4

Quin etiam cum Thrasea gener eius deprecaretur ne mori pergeret, interque alia dixisset

Answer 4

Indeed even when Thrasea Paetus, her son in law, was begging her not to carry out her resolve to die, and had said among other things

Question 5

Vis ergo filiam tuam, si mihi pereundum fuerit, mori mecum?

Answer 5

Therefore do you want your daughter to die with me if I should need to die?

Question 6

Repondit si tam diu tantaque concordia vixerit tecum quam ego cum Paeto, volo.

Answer 6

She replied if she has lived so long and in such great harmony with you as I have with Paetus, I want it