Chapter 18b. English to Latin

Question 1

1. Many (people) are too frightened of even an easy death.

Answer 1

1. Multī morte etiam facilī nimis terrentur.

Question 2

2. The happy memory of sweet friendships will never be destroyed.

Answer 2

2. Beāta memoria amīcitiārum dulcium numquam dēlēbitur.

Question 3

3a. That blind women also understood all the kinds of arts …

Answer 3

3a. Illa fēmina caeca omnia genera artium quoque intellēxit …

Question 4

3b. and was always praised by (her) pleasant friends.

Answer 4

3b. et ab amīcīs iūcundīs semper laudābātur.

Question 5

4a. Your [pl.] aged father, by whom we were often being assisted,

Answer 5

4a Pater senex vester, ā quō saepe iuvābāmur,

Question 6

4b. began yesterday to say much [lit. “many things”] about the swift dangers of the enormous sea.

Answer 6

4b. multa dē celeribus perīculīs ingentis maris heri dīcere coepit.

Question 7

5. Our minds are swiftly moved by the powerful memory of those two deeds.

Answer 7

5. Mentēs nostrae memoriā potentī illōrum duōrum factōrum cito moventur.

Question 8

6. The plans of the enemy [lit. “enemies”] were destroyed in that third long and difficult war.

Answer 8

6. Cōnsilia hostium illō tertiō bellō longō et difficilī dēlēbantur.

Question 9

7a. And so the mother was awaiting the death of (her) fourth son,

Answer 9

7a. Itaque māter mortem quārtī fīliī exspectābat,

Question 10

7b. who was not faring well and whose life was short.

Answer 10

7b. quī nōn valēbat et cuius aetās erat brevis.

Question 11

8. We would never conduct difficult wars without planning and clemency.

Answer 11

8. Bella difficilia sine cōnsiliō et clēmentiā numquam gerēbamus.

Question 12

9. They will drag you [sg.] with nine of the other sad (people) to Caesar.

Answer 12

9. Tē cum novem ex aliīs miserīs ad Caesarem crās trahent.

Question 13

10. They expelled from their (own) city the harsh king, who had begun to neglect (his) duties.

Answer 13

10. Rēgem ācrem, quī officia neglegere incēperat, ex urbe suā ēiēcērunt.

Question 14

11a. That poet, in the third book of satires, wrote about greedy people ….

Answer 14

11a. Ille poēta in tertiō libellō saturārum scrīpsit dē hominibus avārīs …

Question 15

11b. who wish to sail to a hundred other lands …

Answer 15

11b. quī ad centum terrās alias nāvigāre cupiunt …

Question 16

11c. because they desire money too much.

Answer 16

11c. quod pecūniam nimis dēsīderant.

Question 17

12. Clēmentia ab eīs dabitur etiam cīvibus aliārum urbium quās regunt.

Answer 17

12. Mercy will be given by them even to the citizens of other cities which they rule.

Question 18

13. Multī nimis saepe moventur pecūniā sed nōn vēritāte.

Answer 18

13. Many are moved too often by money but not by truth.

Question 19

14a. Cīvitās dēlēbitur ā rēge potentī,

Answer 19

14a. The state will be destroyed by the powerful king,

Question 20

14b. quem coepērunt timēre.

Answer 20

14b. whom they are beginning to fear.

Question 21

15. Eae decem fēminae nōn terrēbantur cōnsiliīs illīus generis levis.

Answer 21

15. Those ten women were not frightened by plans of that trivial sort.

Question 22

1. The can (do it), because the seem to be able (to do it).

Answer 22

1. Possunt quia posse videntur.

Question 23

2. Even brave men are often frightened by sudden dangers.

Answer 23

2. Etiam fortēs virī subitīs perīculīs saepe terrentur.

Question 24

3a. Your [sg.] plans are clear to us;

Answer 24

3a. Tua cōnsilia sunt clāra nōbis;

Question 25

3b. you [sg.] are held by the knowledge of all these citizens [male].

Answer 25

3b. tenēris scientiā hōrum cīvium omnium.

Question 26

4. Evil is the plan that cannot be changed.

Answer 26

4. Malum est cōnsilium quod mūtārī nōn potest.

Question 27

5. It is right to be taught by an enemy.

Answer 27

5. Fās est ab hoste docērī.

Question 28

6a. At that time there were contests in the Circus,

Answer 28

6a. Eō tempore erant circēnsēs lūdī,

Question 29

6b. by which kind (of) frivolous spectacle I am never detained.

Answer 29

6b. quō genere levī spectāctulī numquam teneor.

Question 30

7a. This now is my life:

Answer 30

7a. Haec est nunc vīta mea:

Question 31

7b. I admit and I greet the good men who come to me;

Answer 31

7b. admittō et salūtō bonōs virōs quī ad mē veniunt;

Question 32

7c. then I either write or read;

Answer 32

7c. deinde aut scrībō aut legō;

Question 33

7d. after these things all (my) time is given to the body.

Answer 33

7d. post haec omne tempus corporī datur.

Question 34

8. Death, therefore, is nothing, since the nature of the spirit is held (to be) mortal.

Answer 34

8. Nihil igitur mors est, quoniam nātūra animī habētur mortālis.

Question 35

9. Love cannot be mixed with fear.

Answer 35

9. Amor miscērī cum timōre nōn potest.

Question 36

10. For rashness is never commingled with wisdom.

Answer 36

10. Numquam enim temeritās cum sapientiā commiscētur.

Question 37

11. We will esteem him who is not moved by money.

Answer 37

11. Dīligēmus eum quī pecūniā nōn movētur.

Question 38

12. (he/she/it) is praised by these (people); (he/she/it) is blamed by those.

Answer 38

12. Laudātur ab hīs; culpātur ab illīs.

Question 39

13. Honesty is praised—and is neglected.

Answer 39

13. Probitās laudātur—et alget.

Question 40

1. O (for) the human race, which fears death too much!

Answer 40

1. Ō genus hūmānum, quod mortem nimium timet!

Question 41

2. Why do you [pl.] fear the dangers of death?

Answer 41

2. Cūr perīcula mortis timētis?

Question 42

3. All (things) change, all (things) flow, nothing comes to true death.

Answer 42

3. Omnia mūtantur, omnia fluunt, nihil ad vēram mortem venit.

Question 43

4. The spirit wanders and is mixed into other bodies;

Answer 43

4. Animus errat et in alia corpora miscētur;

Question 44

5. nor does it remain, nor does it preserve the same shapes;

Answer 44

5. nec manet, nec eāsdem fōrmās servat,

Question 45

6. but it changes into new shapes.

Answer 45

6. sed in fōrmās novās mūtātur.

Question 46

7. Life is a river;

Answer 46

7. Vīta est flūmen;

Question 47

8. our times flee and are always new.

Answer 47

8. tempora nostra fugiunt et nova sunt semper.

Question 48

9. Our bodies are always changing;

Answer 48

9. Nostra corpora semper mūtantur;

Question 49

10. That which we have been and are, we will not be tomorrow.

Answer 49

10. id quod fuimus et sumus, nōn crās erimus.