Chapter 16b. English to Latin

Question 1

1. Strong men and women were living before our age.

Answer 1

1. Fortēs virī et fēminae ante aetātem nostram vīvēbant.

Question 2

2. Yesterday he was sending those one hundred sad old men (away) from Italy across difficult seas.

Answer 2

2. Eōs centum senēs miserōs ab Italiā trans maria difficilia heri mittēbat.

Question 3

3a. Those two men expelled all (their) desires from themselves,

Answer 3

3a. Illī duo virī omnēs cupiditātēs ex sē ēiēcērunt,

Question 4

3b. for they feared the nature of the body.

Answer 4

3b. nam nātūram corporis timuērunt.

Question 5

4a. The powerful queen, because she held herself in high regard, shunned those (notorious) three (men) …

Answer 5

4a. Potēns rēgīna, quoniam sē dīlēxit, istōs trēs vītāvit ….

Question 6

4b. and never joined herself with them.

Answer 6

4b. et sē cum eīs numquam iūnxit.

Question 7

5a. And so I was standing there among them …

Answer 7

5a. Itaque inter eōs ibi stābam ….

Question 8

5b. and for a long time I was waiting for the signal with a brave spirit.

Answer 8

5b. et signum cum animō fortī diū exspectābam.

Question 9

6. A swift rumor was running without delay through the mouths and ears of all.

Answer 9

6. Celer rūmor per ōra aurēsque omnium sine morā currēbat.

Question 10

7. The violence of war, however, changed his/her life in a few hours.

Answer 10

7. Vīs bellī acerbī autem vītam eius paucīs hōrīs mūtāvit.

Question 11

8a. Five of the sailors dragged themselves out of the water …

Answer 11

8a. Quīnque ex nautīs sē ex aquā trāxērunt …

Question 12

8b. and they entrusted themselves to mighty Caesar.

Answer 12

8b. sēque Caesarī potentī commīsērunt.

Question 13

9. Caesar could not join his (own) forces with the king’s swift forces.

Answer 13

9. Caesar nōn poterat suās cōpiās cum celeribus cōpiīs rēgis iungere.

Question 14

10a. Themistocles once was calling (on) all the citizens …

Answer 14

10a. Themistoclēs omnēs cīvēs ōlim appellābat …

Question 15

10b. and with his sharp mind he would hold (on to) their names.

Answer 15

10b. et nōmina eōrum ācrī memoriā tenēbat.

Question 16

11a. There are many clouds in the sky …

Answer 16

11a. In caelō sunt multae nūbēs

Question 17

11b. and the farmer’s animals do not do well in bad weather.

Answer 17

11b. et animālia agricolae tempestāte malā nōn valent.

Question 18

12. Pater māterque saepe ad urbem veniēbant cum duo fīliīs [female] dulcibus.

Answer 18

12. The father and the mother often used to come to the city with (their) two sweet daughters.

Question 19

13. Animī fortium virōrum fēminārumque numquam tempora difficilia timēbunt.

Answer 19

13. The souls of brave men and women will never fear difficult times.

Question 20

14. Intellegitne nunc iūra omnia hōrum quattuor virōrum?

Answer 20

14. Does he now understand all the rights of these four men?

Question 21

15a. Medicus fortem puellam adiūvāre nōn potuit,

Answer 21

15a. The doctor [male] could not help the brave girl,

Question 22

15b. mors enim erat celer.

Answer 22

15b. for death was swift.

Question 23

1. How sweet is freedom!

Answer 23

1. Quam dulcis est lībertās!

Question 24

2. Work conquers everything [lit. “all things.”]

Answer 24

2. Labor omnia vīcit.

Question 25

3. Fortune favors the brave (people).

Answer 25

3. Fortūna fortes̄ adiuvat.

Question 26

4. How swift and sharp is the mind!

Answer 26

4. Quam celeris et ācris est mēns!

Question 27

5. Polyphemus was an abhorrent monstrosity, hideous, huge.

Answer 27

5. Polyphēmus erat mōnstrum horrendum, īnfōrme, ingēns.

Question 28

6. A woman is always a fickle and changeable thing.

Answer 28

6. Varium et mūtābile semper fēmina.

Question 29

7a. It’s an easy thing to write epigrams prettily,

Answer 29

7a. Facile est epigrammata bellē scrībere,

Question 30

7b. but it’s a difficult thing to write a book.

Answer 30

7b. sed librum scībere difficile est.

Question 31

8. Anger is short madness: govern your spirit.

Answer 31

8. Īra furor brevis est; animum rege

Question 32

9. The art of poetry is not to say everything.

Answer 32

9. Ars poētica est nōn omnia dīcere.

Question 33

10. Nothing is happy on [lit. “from”] every side.

Answer 33

10. Nihil est ab omnī parte beātum.

Question 34

11. My book nourishes people with sage advice.

Answer 34

11. Liber meus hominēs prūdentī cōnsiliō alit.

Question 35

12. The mother of all the good arts is wisdom.

Answer 35

12. Māter omnium bonārum artium sapientia est.

Question 36

13a. Clemency makes a king safe;

Answer 36

13a. Clēmentia rēgem salvum facit;

Question 37

13b. for the love of all the citizens is an impregnable defence of a king.

Answer 37

13b. nam amor omnium cīvium est inexpugnābile mūnīmentum rēgis.

Question 38

14. Life is short; art (is) long.

Answer 38

14. Vīta est brevis; ars, longa.

Question 39

15. A short period of an age, however, is long enough for living will.

Answer 39

15. Breve tempus aetātis autem satis longum est ad bene vīvendum.

Question 40

16. He/she lives and will live thanks to the memory of all the ages.

Answer 40

16. Vīvit et vīvet per omnium saeculōrum memoriam.

Question 41

1. Will I always be (only) a listener?

Answer 41

1. Semper ego audītor erō?

Question 42

2. There is a crowd of poets in this city—

Answer 42

2. Est turba poētārum in hāc urbe—

Question 43

3. therefore I will always be a poet!

Answer 43

3. ego igitur erō poēta!

Question 44

4. There are thousands of crimes in the city—

Answer 44

4. Sunt mīlia vitiōrum in urbe—

Question 45

5. I will write about the crimes!

Answer 45

5. dē istīs vitiīs scrībam!

Question 46

6. It is a difficult thing not to write satire.

Answer 46

6. Difficile est saturam nōn scrībere.

Question 47

7. If nature can’t help me, indignation will make the poetry.

Answer 47

7. Sī nātūra mē adiuvāre nōn potest, facit indignātiō versum.

Question 48

8. In my book will be all the deeds of people [“of humans”]—

Answer 48

8. In librō meō erunt omnia facta hominum—

Question 49

9. fear, anger, pleasure, blame, desire, plots.

Answer 49

9. timor, īra, voluptās, culpa, cupiditās, īnsidiae.

Question 50

10. There is now a full supply of crimes in this miserable city of Rome!

Answer 50

10. Nunc est plēna cōpia vitiōrum in hāc miserā urbe Romae!