Chapter 10a. Latin to English

Question 1

1. Quid discipulae hodiē discere debent?

Answer 1

1. What should the students [female] learn today?

Question 2

2. Frātrēs nihil cum ratiōne heri gerēbant.

Answer 2

2. The brothers were accomplishing nothing with reason yesterday.

Question 3

3. Ille magnam virtūtem labōris et studiī docēre saepe audet.

Answer 3

3. That (man) often dares to teach the great virtue of work and of study.

Question 4

4. Hic dē senectūte scribēbat; ille, dē amōre; et alius, dē lībertāte.

Answer 4

4. This (man) was writing about old age; that (man) about love; and another, about freedom.

Question 5

5. Ex librīs ūnīus virī nātūram hārum īnsidiārum dēmōnstrābimus.

Answer 5

5. From the books of one man we will show the nature of these plots.

Question 6

6a. Istī sōlī victōriam nimis amant;

Answer 6

6a. These (people of yours) alone love victory too much;

Question 7

6b. neuter dē pāce cōgitat.

Answer 7

6b. neither (person) thinks about peace.

Question 8

7. Ubi cīvitās ūllōs virōs magnae sapientiae audiet?

Answer 8

7. Where will the state hear any men of great wisdom?

Question 9

8. Ex illīs terrīs in haec loca cum amīcīs vestrīs venīte.

Answer 9

8. You [pl] are coming out of those lands in these places with your [pl.] friends.

Question 10

9. Tamen post paucās hōrās sorōrem illīus invenīre poterāmus.

Answer 10

9. Nevertheless after a few hours we were able to find the sister of that (person).

Question 11

10. Cōpiae vestrae utrum virum ibi numquam capient.

Answer 11

10. Your [pl.] troops will never take either man there.

Question 12

11. Alter Graecus remedium huius morbī inveniēbat.

Answer 12

11. The other Greek [male] was finding a cure for [lit. “of”] this disease.

Question 13

12. Carmina illīus scrīptōris sunt plēna nōn sōlum vēritātis sed etiam virtūtis.

Answer 13

12. The poems of that writer are full not only of truth but also (of) truth.

Question 14

13. We shall then come to your [pl.] land without any friends.

Answer 14

13. Veniēmus tum in terram vestram sine ullīs amīcīs.

Question 15

14a. While he was living in that place, nevertheless,

Answer 15

14a. Dum vivēbat in illō locō, tamen,

Question 16

14b. we were able to have no peace.

Answer 16

14b. nūllam pācem poterāmus habēre.

Question 17

15. The whole state now shuns and will always shun these vices.

Answer 17

15. Nunc tōta cīvitās vītat haec vītia et semper vītābit.

Question 18

16. He will, therefore, thank the queen and the whole people.

Answer 18

16. Regīnae igitur gratiās aget et tōtī populō.

Question 19

17. Cupiditātem pecūniae glōriaeque fugite.

Answer 19

17. Flee (from) the passion for [“of”] money and glory.

Question 20

18. Officium meum faciam.

Answer 20

18. I will do my duty.

Question 21

19. Fāma tua et vīta fīliae tuae in perīculum crās venient.

Answer 21

19. Your [sg.] fame and the life or your daughter will come into danger tomorrow.

Question 22

20. Vīta nōn est vīvere sed valēre.

Answer 22

20. Life is not living but faring well.

Question 23

21. Semper magnō cum timōre incipiō.

Answer 23

21. I always begin with great fear.

Question 24

22. Sī mē dūcēs, Mūsa, corōnam magnā cum laude capiam.

Answer 24

22. If you will lead me, Muse, I will take the crown with great praise.

Question 25

23. Vīve memor mortis; fugit hora.

Answer 25

23. Live [sg.] mindful of death; the hour flees.

Question 26

24. Rapite, amīcī, occāsiōnem dē hōrā.

Answer 26

24. Friends [male; or male and female], snatch opportunity from the hour.

Question 27

25. Paucī veniunt ad senectūtem.

Answer 27

25. Few (people) come to old age.

Question 28

26. Sed fugit, intereā, fugit tempus.

Answer 28

26. But it flees, meanwhile, time flees.

Question 29

27. Fāta viam invenient.

Answer 29

27. The fates will find a way.

Question 30

28. Bonum virum natūra, nōn ōrdō, facit.

Answer 30

28. Nature, not rank, makes a good man.

Question 31

29. Obsequium parit amīcōs; vēritās parit odium.

Answer 31

29. Compliance produces friends; truth produces hatred.

Question 32

30. Nihil cum amīcitiā possum comparāre;

Answer 32

30. (There is) nothing I can compare with friendship;

Question 33

31. Dī hominibus nihil melius dant.

Answer 33

31. the gods give nothing better to humans.

Question 34

32. Pecūniam aliī malunt; aliī, corpora sāna;

Answer 34

32. Some (people) prefer money; others, healthy bodies;

Question 35

33. aliī (malunt) fāmam glōriamque; aliī voluptātēs—

Answer 35

33. others (prefer) fame and glory; others pleasures—

Question 36

34. sed hī virī nimium errant,

Answer 36

34. but these men go exceedingly wrong,

Question 37

35. quoniam illa sunt incerta et ex fortūnā veniunt, nōn ex sapientiā.

Answer 37

35. since those things are uncertain and come from fortune, not from wisdom.

Question 38

36. Amīcitia enim ex sapientiā et amōre et mōribus bonīs et virtūte venit;

Answer 38

36. For friendship comes from wisdom and love and good character and virtue;

Question 39

37. sine virtūte amīcitia nōn potest esse.

Answer 39

37. without virtue friendship cannot exist.

Question 40

38. Sī nūllōs amīcōs habēs, habēs vītam tyrannī;

Answer 40

38. If you [sg.] have no friends, you have the life of an autocrat;

Question 41

39. sī inveniēs amīcum vērum, vīta tua erit beāta.

Answer 41

39. if you (will) find a true friend [male], your [sg.] life will be beautiful.