Chapter 17b. English to Latin

Question 1

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

Answer 1

1a. Potēns quoque est vīs artium,

Question 2

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

Answer 2

1b. quae nōs semper alunt.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

2. Miserōs hominēs, autem, sēcum iungere coeperant.

Question 4

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

Answer 4

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

Question 5

4a. We begin to understand the truth,

Answer 5

4a. Incipimus vēritātem intellegere,

Question 6

4b. which should always guide our minds,

Answer 6

4b. quae mentēs nostrās semper regere dēbet

Question 7

4c. and without which we cannnot fare well.

Answer 7

4c. et sine quā valēre nōn possumus.

Question 8

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

Answer 8

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

Question 9

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

Answer 9

6a. Centum ex virīs mortem diū timēbant …

Question 10

6b. and were expecting no clemency.

Answer 10

6b. et nihil clēmentiae expectābant.

Question 11

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

Answer 11

7. Puer mātrem timēbat, quae eum saepe neglegēbat.

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

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

Answer 13

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

Question 14

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

Answer 14

10a. Quoniam memoria factōrum nostrōrum dulcis est,

Question 15

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

Answer 15

10b. beātī nunc sumus et senectūtem facilem agēmus.

Question 16

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

Answer 16

11. Multī audītōrēs saturās ācrēs timēbant quās poēta recitābat.

Question 17

12a. Timēbant virōs potentēs …

Answer 17

12a. They feared the powerful men …

Question 18

12b. quōrum urbem vī regēbant.

Answer 18

12b. whose city they were ruling by force.

Question 19

13a. Coepimus adiūvāre illās trēs fēminās iūcundās …

Answer 19

13a. We began to help those three pleasant women

Question 20

13b. quibus nostram amīcitiam dederāmus.

Answer 20

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

Question 21

14a. Timēmus illum librum …

Answer 21

14a. We fear that book …

Question 22

14b. quō incipit nostram lībertātem dēlēre.

Answer 22

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

Question 23

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

Answer 23

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

Question 24

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

Answer 24

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

Question 25

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

Answer 25

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

Question 26

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

Answer 26

3b. aut ea quae vident neglegunt.

Question 27

4. He gives twice who gives quickly.

Answer 27

4. Bis dat quī cito dat.

Question 28

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

Answer 28

5. Quī coepit, dīmidium factī habet. Incipe!

Question 29

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

Answer 29

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

Question 30

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

Answer 30

7. Fortūna eum stultum facit quem nimium amat.

Question 31

8a. Not only is fortune herself blind ...

Answer 31

8a. Nōn sōlum fortūna ipsa est cauca ...

Question 32

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

Answer 32

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

Question 33

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

Answer 33

9. Bis vincit quī sē vincit in victōriā.

Question 34

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

Answer 34

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

Question 35

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

Answer 35

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

Question 36

12a. Avoid [sg.] the crowd.

Answer 36

12a. Turbam vītā.

Question 37

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

Answer 37

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

Question 38

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

Answer 38

12c. illōs admitte quōs tū potes facere meliōrēs.

Question 39

1. Is there love in old age?

Answer 39

1. Estne amor in senectūte?

Question 40

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

Answer 40

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

Question 41

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

Answer 41

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

Question 42

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

Answer 42

4. et nōn caret is quī nōn dēsīderat.

Question 43

5. Young men desire excessively;

Answer 43

5. Adulēscentēs nimis dēdīderant;

Question 44

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

Answer 44

6. senēs satis amōris saepe habent et multum sapientiae.

Question 45

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

Answer 45

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