Chapter 18a. Latin to English Flashcards
- Multī morte etiam facilī nimis terrentur.
- Many (people) are too frightened of even an easy death.
- Beāta memoria amīcitiārum dulcium numquam dēlēbitur.
- The happy memory of sweet friendships will never be destroyed.
3a. Illa fēmina caeca omnia genera artium quoque intellēxit …
3a. That blind women also understood all the kinds of arts …
3b. et ab amīcīs iūcundīs semper laudābātur.
3b. and was always praised by (her) pleasant friends.
4a Pater senex vester, ā quō saepe iuvābāmur,
4a. Your [pl.] aged father, by whom we were often being assisted,
4b. multa dē celeribus perīculīs ingentis maris heri dīcere coepit.
4b. began yesterday to say much [lit. “many things”] about the swift dangers of the enormous sea.
- Mentēs nostrae memoriā potentī illōrum duōrum factōrum cito moventur.
- Our minds are swiftly moved by the powerful memory of those two deeds.
- Cōnsilia hostium illō tertiō bellō longō et difficilī dēlēbantur.
- The plans of the enemy [lit. “enemies”] were destroyed in that third long and difficult war.
7a. Itaque māter mortem quārtī fīliī exspectābat,
7a. And so the mother was awaiting the death of (her) fourth son,
7b. quī nōn valēbat et cuius aetās erat brevis.
7b. who was not faring well and whose life was short.
- Bella difficilia sine cōnsiliō et clēmentiā numquam gerēbamus.
- We would never conduct difficult wars without planning and clemency.
- Tē cum novem ex aliīs miserīs ad Caesarem crās trahent.
- They will drag you [sg.] with nine of the other sad (people) to Caesar.
- Rēgem ācrem, quī officia neglegere incēperat, ex urbe suā ēiēcērunt.
- They expelled from their (own) city the harsh king, who had begun to neglect (his) duties.
11a. Ille poēta in tertiō libellō saturārum scrīpsit dē hominibus avārīs …
11a. That poet, in the third book of satires, wrote about greedy people ….
11b. quī ad centum terrās alias nāvigāre cupiunt …
11b. who wish to sail to a hundred other lands …
11c. quod pecūniam nimis dēsīderant.
11c. because they desire money too much.
- Mercy will be given by them even to the citizens of other cities which they rule.
- Clēmentia ab eīs dabitur etiam cīvibus aliārum urbium quās regunt.
- Many are moved too often by money but not by truth.
- Multī nimis saepe moventur pecūniā sed nōn vēritāte.
14a. The state will be destroyed by the powerful king,
14a. Cīvitās dēlēbitur ā rēge potentī,