Chapter 13b. English to Latin

Question 1

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

Answer 1

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

Question 2

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

Answer 2

2. Tōtus populus Rōmānus lībertātem āmīsit.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

3. Rēx malus enim mē ipsum capere numquam potuit.

Question 4

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

Answer 4

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

Question 5

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

Answer 5

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

Question 6

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

Answer 6

6. Ipsī per sē eum in Asiā nūper vīcērunt.

Question 7

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

Answer 7

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

Question 8

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

Answer 8

8. Nēmō fīliam acerbam cōnsulis ipsīus diū dīligere potuit.

Question 9

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

Answer 9

9a. Hī Cicerōnem ipsum sēcum iūnxērunt,

Question 10

9b. for they had always esteemed him.

Answer 10

9b. nam eum semper dīlēxerant.

Question 11

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

Answer 11

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

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

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

Answer 13

12a. Māter fīlium bene intellēxit et īram sēnserat,

Question 14

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

Answer 14

12b. et adulēscēns eī prō patientiā grātiās ēgit.

Question 15

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

Answer 15

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

Question 16

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

Answer 16

13b. nec tū autem tē eīscum iungere dēbēs.

Question 17

14. Eī adulēscentēs autem ad Caesarem ipsum vēnērunt heri.

Answer 17

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

Question 18

15. Cicerō igitur nōmen eius cum suō numquam iunget.

Answer 18

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

Question 19

16a. Cicerō semper sē dīligēbat …

Answer 19

16a Cicero always esteemed himself …

Question 20

16b. et etiam tū tē dīligis.

Answer 20

16b. and even you esteem yourself.

Question 21

17a. Cicerō librōs suōs laudābat …

Answer 21

17a. Cicero used to praise his own books …

Question 22

17b. et meōs nunc laudō.

Answer 22

17b. and I now praise my own books.

Question 23

18. Ipse consul Cicerō numquam librum eius vīderat.

Answer 23

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

Question 24

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

Answer 24

1. Ipse ad eōs contendēbat equitēsque ante sē mīsit.

Question 25

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

Answer 25

2. Ipsī nihil per sē sine eō facere potuērunt.

Question 26

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

Answer 26

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

Question 27

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

Answer 27

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

Question 28

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

Answer 28

5. Ex vitiō alterīus sapiēns ēmendat suum.

Question 29

6. Withdraw into your very self.

Answer 29

6. Recēde in tē ipsum.

Question 30

7. The mind nourishes itself.

Answer 30

7. Animus sē ipse alit.

Question 31

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

Answer 31

8. Homō doctus in sē semper dīvitiās habet.

Question 32

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

Answer 32

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

Question 33

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

Answer 33

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

Question 34

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

Answer 34

3. “Fuistī fortūnātus, Ō adulēscēns,

Question 35

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

Answer 35

4. quod Homērum laudātōrem virtūtis tuae invēnistī.”

Question 36

5. And truly (so)!

Answer 36

5. Et vērē!

Question 37

6. For, without that Iliad,

Answer 37

6. Nam, sine Īliade illā,

Question 38

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

Answer 38

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

Question 39

8. Nothing can preserve the human body;

Answer 39

8. Nihil corpus hūmānum cōnservāre potest;

Question 40

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

Answer 40

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

Question 41

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

Answer 41

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

Question 42

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

Answer 42

2. Discipulī Pȳthagorae in disputātiōnibus saepe dicēbant:

Question 43

3. “He himself has said (it)!”

Answer 43

3. “Ipse dīxit!”

Question 44

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

Answer 44

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

Question 45

5. his opinions prevailed even without a reason.

Answer 45

5. sententiae eius etiam sine ratiōne valuērunt.

Question 46

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

Answer 46

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