Chapter 23a. Latin to English

Question 1

1. Aliquid numquam ante audītum in hāc rē pūblicā cernō.

Answer 1

1. I perceive something never previously heard (of) in this commonwealth.

Question 2

2. Illum ōrātōrum in mediō senātū iterum petentem fīnem bellōrum ac scelerum nōn adiūvistis.

Answer 2

2. You [pl.] have not assisted that orator in the middle (of the) senate (who was) again seeking and end of wars and crimes.

Question 3

3. Certī frūctūs pācis ab territō vulgō atque senātū cupiēbantur.

Answer 3

3. The sure fruits of peace were desired by the frightened mob and the senate.

Question 4

4. Quī vir magnanimus aliās gentēs gravī metū servitūtis līberābit?

Answer 4

4. Which great-hearted man will free the other races from the serious fear of slavery?

Question 5

5. Nēmō fidem neglegēns timōre umquam carēbit.

Answer 5

5. No one neglecting faith will ever be without fear.

Question 6

6a. Illa fēmina fortūnāta haec cōnsilia contrā eōs malōs quondam aluit

Answer 6

6a. That fortunate woman once nurtured plans aganst those evil (people)

Question 7

6b. et salūtis commūnis causā semper laborābat.

Answer 7

6b. and was always laboring for the sake of the common safety.

Question 8

7a. Illam gentem Latīnam oppressūrī et dīvitiās raptūrī,

Answer 8

7a. (Being) about to overwhelm that Latin race and (to) seize (their) riches

Question 9

7b. omnēs virōs magnae probitātis premere ac dēlēre prōtinus coepērunt.

Answer 9

7b. they immediately began to pursue and destroy all men of great honesty. [or: they all …. men of great honesty]

Question 10

8. Tollētur fāma huius medicī istīs versibus novīs?

Answer 10

8. Will the reputation of this doctor [male] be lifted up [or “removed”] by those (disgusting) new verses?

Question 11

9. At vīta illīus modī aequī aliquid iūcundī atque fēlīcis continet.

Answer 11

9. But a life of that even way contains something of a pleasant and happy (way).

Question 12

10. Quō diē ex igne et ferrō atque morte certā ēreptus es?

Answer 12

10. On what day were you [sg.] snatched from fire and sword and certain death?

Question 13

11. We gave many things to nations lacking hope.

Answer 13

11. Multa dedimus gentibus spem carentibus.

Question 14

12. Those ten men, (when) called, will come again into this territory with great eagerness.

Answer 14

12. Illī decem virī vocātī iterum venient in hās fīnēs magnō cum studiō.

Question 15

13. Through the window they saw the second old man running out of his neighbor’s house and away from the city.

Answer 15

13. Per fenestram vīdērunt senem secundum currentem ē casā vīcīnī eius et ab urbē.

Question 16

14. He himself was overpowered by uncertain fear because he desired neither truth nor liberty.

Answer 16

14. Ipse oppressus est timōre incertō quod cupiēbat neque vēritātem neque lībertātem.

Question 17

1. Vivēs meīs praesidiīs oppressus.

Answer 17

1. You [sg.] will live suppressed by my guards.

Question 18

2. Illī autem, tendentēs manūs dextrās, salūtem petēbant.

Answer 18

2. Those (men) however, stretching (out) their right hands, were asking for safety.

Question 19

3. Tantalus sitiēns flūmina ab ōre fugientia tangere dēsiderābat.

Answer 19

3. Tantalus, thirsting, was longing to touch rivers fleeing from his mouth.

Question 20

4. Signa rērum futūrārum mundō ā dīs ostenduntur.

Answer 20

4. Signs of things that are going to be are shown to the world by the gods.

Question 21

5. Graecia capta asperum victōrem cēpit.

Answer 21

5. Greece, captured, captured the harsh victor.

Question 22

6. Atticus Cicerōnī ex patriā fugientī multam pecūniam dedit.

Answer 22

6. Atticus gave a lot of money to Cicero (while he was) fleeing from the fatherland.

Question 23

7. Sī mihi eum ēducandum committēs, studia eius fōrmāre ab infantiā incipiam.

Answer 23

7. If you will entrust him to me to be educated, I will begin to shape his enthusiasms from infancy.

Question 24

8. Saepe stilum verte, bonum libellum scrīptūrus.

Answer 24

8. Invert the stilus often, (if you are) going to write a good (little) book.

Question 25

9. Cūra ōrātōris dictūrī eōs audiūrōs dēlectat.

Answer 25

9. The care of an orator (who is) about to speak delights those (who are) about to listen.

Question 26

10. Mortī Sōcratis semper illacrimō, legēns Platōnem.

Answer 26

10. I always weep over the death of Socrates, (when I am) reading Plato.

Question 27

11. Memoria vītae bene āctae multōrumque bene factōrum iūcunda est.

Answer 27

11. The memory of a life led well, and (the memory of) many (things) done well is pleasant.

Question 28

12. Quī timēns vivet, līber nōn erit umquam.

Answer 28

12. (He) who lives (while he is) fearing, will not ever be free.

Question 29

13. Nōn is est miser quī iussus aliquid facit, sed is quī invītus facit.

Answer 29

13. The sad man (lit: “he is not sad who”) is not the man who does something (when he is) ordered, but who does (it) unwillingly.

Question 30

14. Verbum semel ēmissum volat irrevocāble.

Answer 30

14. A word once sent out flies irrevocably [lit: “irrevocable.”]

Question 31

1. Oppressī bellō longō et ā deīs āversī,

Answer 31

1. Suppressed by a long war and turned away from the gods,

Question 32

2. dūcēs Graecōrum, iam post decem annōs,

Answer 32

2. the leaders of the Greeks, now after ten years,

Question 33

4. magnum equum ligneum arte Minervae faciunt.

Answer 33

3. make a big wooden horse with the skill of Minerva.

Question 34

5. Uterum multīs mīlitibus complent,

Answer 34

4. They fill (its) belly with many soldiers,

Question 35

6. equum in lītore relinquunt,

Answer 35

5. the leave the horse on the shore,

Question 36

7. et ultrā īnsulam proximam nāvigant.

Answer 36

6. and they sail beyond a nearby island.

Question 37

8. Trōiānī nūllās cōpiās aut nāvēs vident;

Answer 37

7. The Trojans see no troops or ships;

Question 38

9. omnis Trōia gaudet;

Answer 38

8. all Troy rejoices;

Question 39

10. panduntur portae.

Answer 39

9. the gates are opened.

Question 40

11. Dē equō, autem, Trōiānī sunt incertī.

Answer 40

10. About the horse, however, the Trojans are unsure.

Question 41

12. Aliī eum in urbem dūcī cupiunt;

Answer 41

11. Some want it to be led into the city;

Question 42

13. aliī eum Graecās īnsidiās appellant.

Answer 42

12. Others, however, call it Greek tricks.

Question 43

14. Prīmus ibi ante omnēs, dē arce currēns, Lāocoōn, sacerdōs Trōiānus, haec verba dīcit,

Answer 43

13. First there, in front of everybody, running (down) from the citadel, Laocoön, a Trojan priest, says these words:

Question 44

15. “Ō miserī civēs, nōn estis sānī!”

Answer 44

14. “O (you) miserable citizens, you are not sane!”

Question 45

16. “Quid cogitātis?”

Answer 45

15. “What are you thinking?”

Question 46

17. “Nōnne intellegitis Graecōs et scītis īnsidiās eōrum?”

Answer 46

16. “Don’t you understand Greeks, and know their tricks?”

Question 47

18. “Aut inveniētis in istō equō multōs mīlitēs ācrēs,

Answer 47

17. “Either you will find in this (wretched) horse many savage soldiers,

Question 48

19. aut equus est machina bellī, facta contrā nōs, ventūra in urbem, vīsūra casās nostrās et populum.”

Answer 48

18. or the horse is an engine of war, made against us, about to come into the city, about to see our houses and the people.”

Question 49

20. “Aut aliquid latet.”

Answer 49

19. “Or something is concealed.”

Question 50

21. “Equō nē crēdite, Trōiānī:

Answer 50

20. “Do not trust (in) the horse, Trojans:

Question 51

22. quidquid id est, timeō Danaōs et dōna ferentēs!”

Answer 51

21. whatever it is, I fear Greeks even bearing gifts!”

Question 52

23. Dīxit, et potentem hastam magnīs vīribus manūs sinistrae in uterum equī iēcit;

Answer 52

22. He spoke, and threw a mighty spear with the enormous force of his left hand into the belly of the horse;

Question 53

24. stetit illa, tremēns.

Answer 53

23. it (the spear) stood (there), trembling.