Chapter 21b. English to Latin

Question 1

1. Praise however too often is neither certain nor great.

Answer 1

1. Laus autem nimis saepe est neque certa neque magna.

Question 2

2. The old men in our tribe were never neglected by (their) sons.

Answer 2

2. Senēs in gente nostrā ab fīliīs numquam neglegēbantur.

Question 3

3a. Who [sg.] had been ordered then to free Greece from serious anxiety,

Answer 3

3a. Quis tum iussus erat Graeciam metū gravī līberāre,

Question 4

3b. to defend families, and to keep enemies from the territory?

Answer 4

3b. familiās dēfendere, atque hostēs ā fīnibus prohibēre?

Question 5

4a. For the sake of the common safety …

Answer 5

4a Salūtis commūnis causā ….

Question 6

4b. he/she ordered those conspirators to depart from the city and to be led across the river to the mountains.

Answer 6

4b. eōs coniūrātōs ex urbe discēdere ac trāns flūmen ad montēs dūcī iussit.

Question 7

5a. Other authors began again to move our souls against the judgment and arguments of the senate,

Answer 7

5a. Aliī auctōrēs coepērunt spīritūs nostrōs contrā iūdicium atque argūmenta senātūs iterum movere,

Question 8

5b. because everyone had been frightened by a new fear.

Answer 8

5b. quod omnēs metū novō territī erant.

Question 9

6. All kinds of slavery seem to us harsh.

Answer 9

6. Omnia genera servitūtis nōbīs videntur aspera.

Question 10

7. Therefore will Cicero be snatched from the hands [or “armed bands”] of these (horrible) ones?

Answer 10

7. Rapiēturne igitur Cicerō ex manibus istōrum?

Question 11

8. What end of fear and slavery can now be seen in that state?

Answer 11

8. Quī fīnis metūs atque servitūtis in eā cīvitāte nunc potest vidērī?

Question 12

9. But for the sake of a good old age we ought to be living well already.

Answer 12

9. At senectūtis bonae causā iam bene vīvere dēbēmus.

Question 13

10. In their [male] family were two daughters and four sons.

Answer 13

10. In familiā eōrum erant duae fīliae atque quattuor fīliī.

Question 14

11. The cottage of our neighbor [female] has had few windows through which she could see. [or “through which it was possible to see”]

Answer 14

11. Casa vīcīnae nostrae habuit paucās fenestrās per quās vidēre potuit.

Question 15

12a. When he heard the horn, the old man fell to his knees …

Answer 15

12a. Quandō cornū audīvit, senex in genua cecidit …

Question 16

12b. and began pronouncing thanks to the immortal gods.

Answer 16

12b. et deīs immortālibus grātiās prōnūnitābat.

Question 17

13. Thanks to the favors and community feeling of the autocrat, few hated him.

Answer 17

13. Propter beneficia et sēnsum commūnem tyrannī, paucī eum odērunt.

Question 18

14. Vēritās nōn inveniētur sine magnō labōre.

Answer 18

14. The truth will not be found without great labor.

Question 19

15. Multae gentēs, quae pāce vērā carent, bellīs dēlentur.

Answer 19

15. Many nations which lack true peace are being destroyed by wars.

Question 20

16a. Metūs eōrum iam superārī possunt,

Answer 20

16a. Their [male] fears can now be conquered …

Question 21

16b. quod facta nostra ab omnibus intellegentur.

Answer 21

16b. because our deeds are understood by all.

Question 22

17a. Nisi studia gravia nōs dēlectant,

Answer 22

17a. Unless serious pursuits delight us,

Question 23

17b. saepe neglegentur pecūnae aut laudis causā.

Answer 23

17b. they are often neglected for the sake of money or praise. [use causā + gen.]

Question 24

1. Danger is never defeated without danger.

Answer 24

1. Numquam perīculum sine perīculō vincitur.

Question 25

2. Novius is my neighbor [male] and can be touched with (my) right hand from my windows.

Answer 25

2. Novius est vīcīnus meus et manū dextrā tangī dē fenestrīs meīs potest.

Question 26

3. Will the judges not order this (man), on account of (his) crimes, to be led into chains and to be carried away to (his) death?

Answer 26

3. Nōnne iūdicēs iubēbunt hunc propter scelera in vincula dūcī et ad mortem rapī?

Question 27

4a. Another age is worn out in civil wars ...

Answer 27

4a. Altera aetas bellīs cīvīlibus teritur ...

Question 28

4b. and Rome herself is destroyed by her own strength.

Answer 28

4b. et Rōma ipsa suīs vīribus dēlētur.

Question 29

5a. But friendship is shut out from no place

Answer 29

5a. At amīcītia nūllō locō exclūditur;

Question 30

5b. it is never untimely or ominous;

Answer 30

5b. numquam est intempestiva aut sinistra;

Question 31

5c. it contains many benefits.

Answer 31

5c. multa benefecia continet.

Question 32

6. Things of the future cannot be known.

Answer 32

6. Futūra scīrī nōn possunt.

Question 33

7a. At the beginning the world was created for the sake of gods and of humans,

Answer 33

7a. Prīncipiō ipse mundus deōrum hominumque causā factus est,

Question 34

7b. and what (things) are in it, they were prepared for the enjoyment of humans.

Answer 34

7b. et quae in eō sunt, ea parāta sunt ad frūctum hominum.

Question 35

8. How fully is agriculture praised by Xenophon in that book which is entitled “Oeconomicus.”

Answer 35

8. Quam cōpiōsē ā Xenophonte agrīcultūra laudātur in eō librō quī “Oeconomicus” īnscrībitur.

Question 36

9. The crowd wishes to be deceived.

Answer 36

9. Vulgus vult dēcipī.

Question 37

10. Where are knowledge and wisdom found?

Answer 37

10. Ubi scientia ac sapientia inveniuntur?

Question 38

11. Truth too often struggles; it is never extinguished.

Answer 38

11. Vēritās nimis saepe labōrat; exstinguitur numquam.

Question 39

1. Now a great new age is coming;

Answer 39

1. Venit iam magna aetās nova;

Question 40

2. a boy is sent from heaven,

Answer 40

2. de caelō mittitur puer,

Question 41

3. who will have the life of the gods and will see the gods and will himself be seen by them.

Answer 41

3. quī vītam deōrum habēbit deōsque vidēbit et ipse vidēbitur ab illīs.

Question 42

4. This boy will rule the world to which the virtues of (his) father have given peace.

Answer 42

4. Hic puer reget mundum cui virtūtēs patris pācem dedērunt.

Question 43

5. A few evils, however, will remain,

Answer 43

5. Pauca mala, autem, remanēbunt,

Question 44

6. which will command humans to work and to wage harsh warfare.

Answer 44

6. quae hominēs iubēbunt labōrāre atque bellum asperum gerere.

Question 45

7. There will be, however, other wars ...

Answer 45

7. Erunt autem altera bella ...

Question 46

8. And again great Achilles will be sent to Troy.

Answer 46

8. atque iterum ad Trōiam magnus mittētur Achillēs.

Question 47

9. Then, boy, when now the long age will have made you a man,

Answer 47

9. Tum, puer, ubi iam longa aetās tē virum fēcerit,

Question 48

10. there will be no struggles, no wars;

Answer 48

10. erunt nūllī labōrēs, nūlla bella;

Question 49

11. sailors will depart from their ships,

Answer 49

11. nautae ex nāvibus discēdent,

Question 50

12. farmers too will now abandon their fields,

Answer 50

12. agricolae quoque iam agrōs relinquent,

Question 51

13. the earth itself will prepare everything for all humans.

Answer 51

13. terra ipsa omnibus hominibus omnia parābit.

Question 52

14. Run, ages;

Answer 52

14. Currite, aetātēs;

Question 53

15. begin, boy, to know your mother,

Answer 53

15. incipe, parve puer, scīre matrem,

Question 54

16. and there will be breath enough for me to speak (of) your deeds.

Answer 54

16. et erit satis spīritūs mihi tua dicere facta.