Chapter 17a. Latin to English Flashcards
1a. Potēns quoque est vīs artium,
1a. Powerful too is the force of the arts,
1b. quae nōs semper alunt.
1b. which [i.e. the arts] always sustain us.
- Miserōs hominēs, autem, sēcum iungere coeperant.
- They had begun, however, to join sad men with themselves.
- Nam illā aetāte pars populī in Italiā iūra cīvium numquam tenuit.
- For at that time a portion of the people in Italy never possessed the rights of citizens.
4a. Incipimus vēritātem intellegere,
4a. We begin to understand the truth,
4b. quae mentēs nostrās semper regere dēbet
4b. which should always guide our minds,
4c. et sine quā valēre nōn possumus.
4c. and without which we cannnot fare well.
- Quam difficile est bona aut dulcia ex bellō trahere!
- How difficult it is to derive good and sweet (things) from war.
6a. Centum ex virīs mortem diū timēbant …
6a. A hundred of the men were afraid of death for a long time
6b. et nihil clēmentiae expectābant.
6b. and were expecting no clemency.
- Puer mātrem timēbat, quae eum saepe neglegēbat.
- The boy was afraid of (his) mother, who would often neglect him.
- Inter omnia perīcula fēmina fortis sē cum sapientiā gessit.
- Among all the dangers the brave woman conducted herself with wisdom.
- Itaque celer rūmor mortis ācris per ingentēs urbēs cucurrit.
- And so the swift rumor of bitter death ran through the huge cities.
10a. Quoniam memoria factōrum nostrōrum dulcis est,
10a. Since the memory of our deeds is sweet,
10b. beātī nunc sumus et senectūtem facilem agēmus.
10b. we are happy now and will have [lit. “lead, conduct”] an easy old age.
- Multī audītōrēs saturās ācrēs timēbant quās poēta recitābat.
- Many listeners would be afraid of the bitter satires which the poet would recite.
12a. They feared the powerful men …
12a. Timēbant virōs potentēs …
12b. whose city they were ruling by force.
12b. quōrum urbem vī regēbant.
13a. We began to help those three pleasant women
13a. Coepimus adiūvāre illās trēs fēminās iūcundās …
13b. … to whom we had given our friendship.
13b. quibus nostram amīcitiam dederāmus.
14a. We fear that book …
14a. Timēmus illum librum …
14b. with which he is beginning to destroy our library.
14b. quō incipit nostram lībertātem dēlēre.
- Salvē, bone amīce, cui fīlium meum heri commīsī.
- Hello, good friend [male], to whom I entrusted my son yesterday.
- Dionȳsius, dē quō ante dīxī, ā Graeciā ad Siciliam per tempestātem brevem sed potentem nāvigābat.
- Dionysius, about whom I was speaking earlier, was sailing from Greece to Sicily through a short but powerful storm.
