avunculus meus- A day in the life of Pliny the Elder paragraph 2

Question 1

haec inter medios labores urbisque fremitum.

Answer 1

[He did] these things in the midst of his duties and the bustles of the city.

Question 2

in secessu solum balinei tempus studiis eximebatur (cum dico ‘balinei’, de interioribus loquor; nam dum destringitur tergiturque, audiebat aliquid aut dictabat).

Answer 2

In the country the only time taken away from his studies [was] for his bath (when I say ‘for his bath’, I am speaking of the inner rooms; for while he was scraped and rubbed down, he would hear something or dictate).

Question 3

in itinere quasi solutus ceteris curis, huic uni vacabat: ad latus notarius cum libro et pugillribus, cuius manus hieme manicis muniebantur, ut ne caeli quidem aspertitas ullum studii tempus eriperet; qua ex causa Romae quoque sella vehebatur.

Answer 3

On a journey, as if released form other cares, he would make time for this alone: at his side [was] a secretary with a book and writing tablets, whose hands were protected in the winter by long sleeves, so that not even the harshness of the weather should take away any time for study; for this reason also in Rome he was carried in a sedan-chair.

Question 4

repeto me correptum ab eo, quod ambularem: ‘poteras’ inquit ‘has horas non perdere’; nam perire omne tempus arbitrabatur, quod studiis non impenderetur.

Answer 4

I remember that I was scolded by him because I used to walk: ‘You could not have wasted these hours,’ he said; for he thought all the time wasted which was not devoted to studying.

Question 5

vale.

Answer 5

Farewell.