Chapter 17a. Latin to English

Question 1

1a. Potēns quoque est vīs artium,

Answer 1

1a. Powerful too is the force of the arts,

Question 2

1b. quae nōs semper alunt.

Answer 2

1b. which [i.e. the arts] always sustain us.

Question 3

2. Miserōs hominēs, autem, sēcum iungere coeperant.

Answer 3

2. They had begun, however, to join sad men with themselves.

Question 4

3. Nam illā aetāte pars populī in Italiā iūra cīvium numquam tenuit.

Answer 4

3. For at that time a portion of the people in Italy never possessed the rights of citizens.

Question 5

4a. Incipimus vēritātem intellegere,

Answer 5

4a. We begin to understand the truth,

Question 6

4b. quae mentēs nostrās semper regere dēbet

Answer 6

4b. which should always guide our minds,

Question 7

4c. et sine quā valēre nōn possumus.

Answer 7

4c. and without which we cannnot fare well.

Question 8

5. Quam difficile est bona aut dulcia ex bellō trahere!

Answer 8

5. How difficult it is to derive good and sweet (things) from war.

Question 9

6a. Centum ex virīs mortem diū timēbant …

Answer 9

6a. A hundred of the men were afraid of death for a long time

Question 10

6b. et nihil clēmentiae expectābant.

Answer 10

6b. and were expecting no clemency.

Question 11

7. Puer mātrem timēbat, quae eum saepe neglegēbat.

Answer 11

7. The boy was afraid of (his) mother, who would often neglect him.

Question 12

8. Inter omnia perīcula fēmina fortis sē cum sapientiā gessit.

Answer 12

8. Among all the dangers the brave woman conducted herself with wisdom.

Question 13

9. Itaque celer rūmor mortis ācris per ingentēs urbēs cucurrit.

Answer 13

9. And so the swift rumor of bitter death ran through the huge cities.

Question 14

10a. Quoniam memoria factōrum nostrōrum dulcis est,

Answer 14

10a. Since the memory of our deeds is sweet,

Question 15

10b. beātī nunc sumus et senectūtem facilem agēmus.

Answer 15

10b. we are happy now and will have [lit. “lead, conduct”] an easy old age.

Question 16

11. Multī audītōrēs saturās ācrēs timēbant quās poēta recitābat.

Answer 16

11. Many listeners would be afraid of the bitter satires which the poet would recite.

Question 17

12a. They feared the powerful men …

Answer 17

12a. Timēbant virōs potentēs …

Question 18

12b. whose city they were ruling by force.

Answer 18

12b. quōrum urbem vī regēbant.

Question 19

13a. We began to help those three pleasant women

Answer 19

13a. Coepimus adiūvāre illās trēs fēminās iūcundās …

Question 20

13b. … to whom we had given our friendship.

Answer 20

13b. quibus nostram amīcitiam dederāmus.

Question 21

14a. We fear that book …

Answer 21

14a. Timēmus illum librum …

Question 22

14b. with which he is beginning to destroy our library.

Answer 22

14b. quō incipit nostram lībertātem dēlēre.

Question 23

1. Salvē, bone amīce, cui fīlium meum heri commīsī.

Answer 23

1. Hello, good friend [male], to whom I entrusted my son yesterday.

Question 24

2. Dionȳsius, dē quō ante dīxī, ā Graeciā ad Siciliam per tempestātem brevem sed potentem nāvigābat.

Answer 24

2. Dionysius, about whom I was speaking earlier, was sailing from Greece to Sicily through a short but powerful storm.

Question 25

3a. Multī cīvēs aut ea perīcula quae imminent nōn vident ….

Answer 25

3a. Many citizens [male] either do not see those dangers that are threatening …

Question 26

3b. aut ea quae vident neglegunt.

Answer 26

3b. or they are ignoring those that they see.

Question 27

4. Bis dat quī cito dat.

Answer 27

4. He gives twice who gives quickly.

Question 28

5. Quī coepit, dīmidium factī habet. Incipe!

Answer 28

5. (He) who begins, has half of the deed. Begin! [sg.]

Question 29

6. Levis est fortūna: id cito resposcit quod dedit.

Answer 29

6. Fortune is fickle: it quickly demands back that which has given.

Question 30

7. Fortūna eum stultum facit quem nimium amat.

Answer 30

7. Fortune makes stupid him whom she loves too much.

Question 31

8a. Nōn sōlum fortūna ipsa est cauca …

Answer 31

8a. Not only is fortune herself blind …

Question 32

8b. sed etiam eōs caecōs facit quōs semper adiuvat.

Answer 32

8b. but she also makes blind those whom she always assists.

Question 33

9. Bis vincit quī sē vincit in victōriā.

Answer 33

9. (He) conquers twice who conquers himself in victory.

Question 34

10. Simulātiō dēlet vēritātem, sine quā nōmen amīcitiae valēre nōn potest.

Answer 34

10. Pretense destroys truth, without which the name of friendship cannot fare well.

Question 35

11. Virtūtem enim illīus virī amāvī, quae cum corpore nōn periit.

Answer 35

11. For I have loved the virtue of that man, which did not perish with (his) body.

Question 36

12a. Turbam vītā.

Answer 36

12a. Avoid [sg.] the crowd.

Question 37

12b. Cum hīs vive quī tē meliōrem facere possunt;

Answer 37

12b. Live [sg.] with those [lit. “these”; male] who can make you [sg.] better;

Question 38

12c. illōs admitte quōs tū potes facere meliōrēs.

Answer 38

13c. receive [sg.] those [male] whom you can make better.

Question 39

1. Estne amor in senectūte?

Answer 39

1. Is there love in old age?

Question 40

2. Voluptās enim minor est, sed minor quoque est cupiditās.

Answer 40

2. For pleasure is less, but less also is desire.

Question 41

3. Nihil autem est cūra nōbīs, sī nōn cūpimus,

Answer 41

3. But nothing concerns us [lit. “nothing is a care for us”], if we do not want (anything),

Question 42

4. et nōn caret is quī nōn dēsīderat.

Answer 42

4. And he who does not desire (anything) does not miss (anything).

Question 43

5. Adulēscentēs nimis dēdīderant;

Answer 43

5. Young men desire excessively;

Question 44

6. senēs satis amōris saepe habent et multum sapientiae.

Answer 44

6. old men often have enough (of) love and enough (of) wisdom.

Question 45

7. Cōgitō, igitur, hoc tempus vītae esse iūcundum.

Answer 45

7. I think, therefore, that this time of life is pleasant.

Question 46

1. scan and read aloud Martial 1.38:

Quem recitās meus est, ō Fīdentīne, libellus;

sed male cum recitās, incipit esse tuus!

Answer 46

1.

Quem rĕcĭtās mĕŭs est, // ō Fīdentīnĕ, lĭbellus;

sed mălĕ cum rĕcĭtās, // incĭpĭt essĕ tŭus!

Question 47

Translate

Quem recitās meus est, ō Fīdentīne, libellus;

sed male cum recitās, incipit esse tuus!

Answer 47

The book you are reading from is mine, O Fidentinus;

but when you read badly, it starts to be yours!