Chapter 13a. Latin to English Flashcards
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- Cōnsulēs sē nec tēcum nec cum illīs aliīs iungēbant.
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- The consuls were joining themselves neither with you [sg.] nor with those others.
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- Tōtus populus Rōmānus lībertātem āmīsit.
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- The whole Roman people lost (its) freedom.
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- Rēx malus enim mē ipsum capere numquam potuit.
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- For the evil king was never able to take me myself.
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- Ad patrem mātremque eōrum per illum locum tum fūgistis.
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- You [pl.] then fled to their [male] father and mother through that place.
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- Dī animōs creant et eōs in corpora hominum ē caelō mittunt.
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- The gods create spirits and send them from heaven into peoples’ bodies.
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- Ipsī per sē eum in Asiā nūper vīcērunt.
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- (They) themselves by their own efforts [lit. “through themselves”] recently defeated him in Asia.
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- In hāc viā Cicerō medicum eius vīdit, nōn suum.
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- On this road Cicero saw his [someone else’s] doctor, not his own.
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- Nēmō fīliam acerbam cōnsulis ipsīus diū dīligere potuit.
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- No one could love for long the bitter daughter of the consul himself.
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9a. Hī Cicerōnem ipsum sēcum iūnxērunt,
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9a. These (men, people) joined Cicero himself with them [= with these people],
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9b. nam eum semper dīlēxerant.
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9b. for they had always esteemed him.
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- Fēmina amīca vōbīs ante illam hōram litterās suās mīserit.
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- The friendly woman will have sent her [own] letter to you [pl.] before that hour.
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- Ille bonam senectūtem habuit, nam per annōs bene vīxerat.
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- That (man) had a good old age, for he had lived well for many years.
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12a. Māter fīlium bene intellēxit et īram sēnserat,
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12a. The mother understood her son well and had experienced (his) anger,
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12b. et adulēscēns eī prō patientiā grātiās ēgit.
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12b. and the young man thanked her for (her) patientia.
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13a. Mē cum istīs et capite eōrum nōn iungam,
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13a. I will not join myself to those (horrible people) and their head,
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13b. nec tū autem tē eīscum iungere dēbēs.
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13b. nor, however, should you [sg.] join yourself with them.
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- However, those young men came to Caesar himself yesterday.
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- Eī adulēscentēs autem ad Caesarem ipsum vēnērunt heri.
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- Cicero, therefore, will never join his [Caesar’s] name with his own.
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- Cicerō igitur nōmen eius cum suō numquam iunget.
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16a Cicero always esteemed himself …
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16a. Cicerō semper sē dīligēbat …
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16b. and even you esteem yourself.
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16b. et etiam tū tē dīligis.
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17a. Cicero used to praise his own books …
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17a. Cicerō librōs suōs laudābat …
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17b. and I now praise my own books.
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17b. et meōs nunc laudō.
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- The consul Cicero himself had never seen his [Caesar’s] book.
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- Ipse consul Cicerō numquam librum eius vīderat.
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- Ipse ad eōs contendēbat equitēsque ante sē mīsit.
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- He himself hastened to them [male] and sent the horsemen ahead of him.
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2. Ipsī nihil per sē sine eō facere potuērunt.
2. They themselves [male] could do nothing by themselves without him.
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3. Ipse signum suum et litterās suās ā prīncipiō recognōvit.
3. He himself has from the beginning recognized his (own) seal and his (own) letter.
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4. Quisque ipse sē dīligit, quod quisque per sē sibi cārus est.
4. Each person himself esteems himself, because each person is dear to himself on his own account.
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5. Ex vitiō alterīus sapiēns ēmendat suum.
5. From the fault of another a wise man corrects his own (fault).
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6. Recēde in tē ipsum.
6. Withdraw into your very self.
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7. Animus sē ipse alit.
7. The mind nourishes itself.
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8. Homō doctus in sē semper dīvitiās habet.
8. A learned person person [male] always has riches in himself.
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1. Magnus ille Alexander multōs scrīptōrēs factōrum suōrum sēcum semper habēbat.
1. That (famous) Alexander the Great always had with him many writers of his deeds.
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2. Is enim ante tumulum Achillis ōlim stetit et dīxit haec verba:
2. For he once stood before the tomb of Achiles and spoke these words:
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3. “Fuistī fortūnātus, Ō adulēscēns,
3. “You have been fortunate, o young man,
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4. quod Homērum laudātōrem virtūtis tuae invēnistī.”
4. because you found Homer (as) a eulogist of your virtue.”
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5. Et vērē!
5. And truly (so)!
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6. Nam, sine Īliade illā,
6. For, without that Iliad,
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7. īdem tumulus et corpus eius et nōmen obruere potuit.
7. the same tomb could have buried both his name and his body.
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8. Nihil corpus hūmānum cōnservāre potest;
8. Nothing can preserve the human body;
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9. sed litterae magnae nōmen virī magnī saepe cōnservāre possunt.
9. but great literature [lit. plural] can often preserve the name of a great man.
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1. Magistrī bonī discipulīs sententiās suās nōn semper dicere debent.
1. Good teachers [male] should not always speak their own opinions to their students [male].
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2. Discipulī Pȳthagorae in disputātiōnibus saepe dicēbant:
2. The students [male] of Pythagoras would in their debates often say:
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3. “Ipse dīxit!”
3. “He himself has said (it)!”
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4. Pȳthagorās, eōrum magister philosophiae, erat “ipse”:
4. Pythagoras, their teacher of philosophy, was “himself”:
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5. sententiae eius etiam sine ratiōne valuērunt.
5. his opinions prevailed even without a reason.
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6. In philosophiā autem ratiō sōla, nōn sententia, valēre debet.
6. In philosophy, however reason alone, not opinion, should prevail.
