Chapter 13a. Latin to English

Question 1

1. Cōnsulēs sē nec tēcum nec cum illīs aliīs iungēbant.

Answer 1

1. The consuls were joining themselves neither with you [sg.] nor with those others.

Question 2

2. Tōtus populus Rōmānus lībertātem āmīsit.

Answer 2

2. The whole Roman people lost (its) freedom.

Question 3

3. Rēx malus enim mē ipsum capere numquam potuit.

Answer 3

3. For the evil king was never able to take me myself.

Question 4

4. Ad patrem mātremque eōrum per illum locum tum fūgistis.

Answer 4

4. You [pl.] then fled to their [male] father and mother through that place.

Question 5

5. Dī animōs creant et eōs in corpora hominum ē caelō mittunt.

Answer 5

5. The gods create spirits and send them from heaven into peoples’ bodies.

Question 6

6. Ipsī per sē eum in Asiā nūper vīcērunt.

Answer 6

6. (They) themselves by their own efforts [lit. “through themselves”] recently defeated him in Asia.

Question 7

7. In hāc viā Cicerō medicum eius vīdit, nōn suum.

Answer 7

7. On this road Cicero saw his [someone else’s] doctor, not his own.

Question 8

8. Nēmō fīliam acerbam cōnsulis ipsīus diū dīligere potuit.

Answer 8

8. No one could love for long the bitter daughter of the consul himself.

Question 9

9a. Hī Cicerōnem ipsum sēcum iūnxērunt,

Answer 9

9a. These (men, people) joined Cicero himself with them [= with these people],

Question 10

9b. nam eum semper dīlēxerant.

Answer 10

9b. for they had always esteemed him.

Question 11

10. Fēmina amīca vōbīs ante illam hōram litterās suās mīserit.

Answer 11

10. The friendly woman will have sent her [own] letter to you [pl.] before that hour.

Question 12

11. Ille bonam senectūtem habuit, nam per annōs bene vīxerat.

Answer 12

11. That (man) had a good old age, for he had lived well for many years.

Question 13

12a. Māter fīlium bene intellēxit et īram sēnserat,

Answer 13

12a. The mother understood her son well and had experienced (his) anger,

Question 14

12b. et adulēscēns eī prō patientiā grātiās ēgit.

Answer 14

12b. and the young man thanked her for (her) patientia.

Question 15

13a. Mē cum istīs et capite eōrum nōn iungam,

Answer 15

13a. I will not join myself to those (horrible people) and their head,

Question 16

13b. nec tū autem tē eīscum iungere dēbēs.

Answer 16

13b. nor, however, should you [sg.] join yourself with them.

Question 17

14. However, those young men came to Caesar himself yesterday.

Answer 17

14. Eī adulēscentēs autem ad Caesarem ipsum vēnērunt heri.

Question 18

15. Cicero, therefore, will never join his [Caesar’s] name with his own.

Answer 18

15. Cicerō igitur nōmen eius cum suō numquam iunget.

Question 19

16a Cicero always esteemed himself …

Answer 19

16a. Cicerō semper sē dīligēbat …

Question 20

16b. and even you esteem yourself.

Answer 20

16b. et etiam tū tē dīligis.

Question 21

17a. Cicero used to praise his own books …

Answer 21

17a. Cicerō librōs suōs laudābat …

Question 22

17b. and I now praise my own books.

Answer 22

17b. et meōs nunc laudō.

Question 23

18. The consul Cicero himself had never seen his [Caesar’s] book.

Answer 23

18. Ipse consul Cicerō numquam librum eius vīderat.

Question 24

1. Ipse ad eōs contendēbat equitēsque ante sē mīsit.

Answer 24

1. He himself hastened to them [male] and sent the horsemen ahead of him.

Question 25

2. Ipsī nihil per sē sine eō facere potuērunt.

Answer 25

2. They themselves [male] could do nothing by themselves without him.

Question 26

3. Ipse signum suum et litterās suās ā prīncipiō recognōvit.

Answer 26

3. He himself has from the beginning recognized his (own) seal and his (own) letter.

Question 27

4. Quisque ipse sē dīligit, quod quisque per sē sibi cārus est.

Answer 27

4. Each person himself esteems himself, because each person is dear to himself on his own account.

Question 28

5. Ex vitiō alterīus sapiēns ēmendat suum.

Answer 28

5. From the fault of another a wise man corrects his own (fault).

Question 29

6. Recēde in tē ipsum.

Answer 29

6. Withdraw into your very self.

Question 30

7. Animus sē ipse alit.

Answer 30

7. The mind nourishes itself.

Question 31

8. Homō doctus in sē semper dīvitiās habet.

Answer 31

8. A learned person person [male] always has riches in himself.

Question 32

1. Magnus ille Alexander multōs scrīptōrēs factōrum suōrum sēcum semper habēbat.

Answer 32

1. That (famous) Alexander the Great always had with him many writers of his deeds.

Question 33

2. Is enim ante tumulum Achillis ōlim stetit et dīxit haec verba:

Answer 33

2. For he once stood before the tomb of Achiles and spoke these words:

Question 34

3. “Fuistī fortūnātus, Ō adulēscēns,

Answer 34

3. “You have been fortunate, o young man,

Question 35

4. quod Homērum laudātōrem virtūtis tuae invēnistī.”

Answer 35

4. because you found Homer (as) a eulogist of your virtue.”

Question 36

5. Et vērē!

Answer 36

5. And truly (so)!

Question 37

6. Nam, sine Īliade illā,

Answer 37

6. For, without that Iliad,

Question 38

7. īdem tumulus et corpus eius et nōmen obruere potuit.

Answer 38

7. the same tomb could have buried both his name and his body.

Question 39

8. Nihil corpus hūmānum cōnservāre potest;

Answer 39

8. Nothing can preserve the human body;

Question 40

9. sed litterae magnae nōmen virī magnī saepe cōnservāre possunt.

Answer 40

9. but great literature [lit. plural] can often preserve the name of a great man.

Question 41

1. Magistrī bonī discipulīs sententiās suās nōn semper dicere debent.

Answer 41

1. Good teachers [male] should not always speak their own opinions to their students [male].

Question 42

2. Discipulī Pȳthagorae in disputātiōnibus saepe dicēbant:

Answer 42

2. The students [male] of Pythagoras would in their debates often say:

Question 43

3. “Ipse dīxit!”

Answer 43

3. “He himself has said (it)!”

Question 44

4. Pȳthagorās, eōrum magister philosophiae, erat “ipse”:

Answer 44

4. Pythagoras, their teacher of philosophy, was “himself”:

Question 45

5. sententiae eius etiam sine ratiōne valuērunt.

Answer 45

5. his opinions prevailed even without a reason.

Question 46

6. In philosophiā autem ratiō sōla, nōn sententia, valēre debet.

Answer 46

6. In philosophy, however reason alone, not opinion, should prevail.