Chapter 20a. Latin to English Flashcards
1
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- Etiam senēs frūctibus sapientiae et cōnsiliis argūmentīsque certīs saepe carēre videntur.
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- Even old men often seem to lack the benefits of wisdom, and plans, and reliable arguments.
2
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- Aut ingentēs montēs aut flūmina celeria quae dē montibus fluēbant hostēs ab urbe prohibēbant.
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- Either the huge mountains or the swift rivers that flow down from the mountains were keeping the enemy [lit. plural] away from the city.
3
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- Quoniam nimis fortia facta faciēbat, aetas eius erat brevis.
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- Because he was doing excessively brave deeds, his life was short.
4
Q
- Illa medica facere poterat multa manū dextrā sed sinistrā manū pauca.
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- That doctor [female] could do many (things) with her right hand, but with her left hand few.
5
Q
- At vēritās nōs metū gravī iam līberābit quō diū territī sumus.
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- But already truth will free us from the serious fear by which we have been terrified for a long time.
6
Q
- Quibus generibus scelerum sinistrōrum illae duae cīvitātēs dēlētae erunt?
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- By what kinds of ill-omened crimes will those two states have been destroyed?
7
Q
- Quī mortālis sine amīcitiā et probitāte et beneficiō in aliōs potest esse beātus?
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- What mortal can be happy without friendship and honesty and service to others?
8
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- Pater pecūniam ex Graeciā in suam patriam movēre coeperat, nam familia discēdere cupīvit.
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- The father began to move his money from Greece to his own country, for his household desired to depart.
9
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- Ā quibus studium difficilium artium eō tempore neglēctum est?
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- By whom [pl.] has the difficult pursuit of the arts been neglected?
10
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- Ubi versūs illīus auctōris clārī lēctī sunt, audītōrēs dēlectātī sunt.
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- Where the verses of that famous author have been read, (his/her) listeners have been charmed.
11
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- Sē cito iēcērunt ad genua iūdicum, quī autem nūllam clēmentiam dēmōnstrāvērunt.
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- They threw themselves at the knees of the judges, who however showed no mercy.
12
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- Istī coniūrātī ab urbe prohibērī nōn possunt.
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- Those (dreadful) conspirators cannot be kept from the city.
13
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13a. We cannot have the fruits of peace …
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13a. Frūctūs pācis nōn possumus habēre …
14
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13b. unless we ouselves [male] free our families from heavy dread.
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13b. nisi nostrās familiās ipsī līberāmus dē metū gravī.
15
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14a. Those bands of unfortunate men and women …
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14a. Eī manūs virōrum fēminārumque miserārum [or miserōrum] …
16
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14b. will come to us from other counteries …
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14b. ad nōs venient ex aliīs patriīs ….
17
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14c. in which they are deprived of the benefits of citizenship.
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14c. in quibus carent beneficiīs cīvitātis.
18
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- The old man lacked neither games nor serious pursuits.
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- Senex carēbat neque lūdīs neque studiīs gravibus.
19
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- Who [sg.] began to perceive our common fears of serious crime?
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- Quis coepit sentīre metūs commūnēs nostrōs sceleris gravis.