Chapter 23b. English to Latin

Question 1

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

Answer 1

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

Question 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.

Answer 2

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

Question 3

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

Answer 3

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

Question 4

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

Answer 4

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

Question 5

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

Answer 5

5. Nēmō fidem neglegēns timōre umquam carēbit.

Question 6

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

Answer 6

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

Question 7

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

Answer 7

6b. et salūtis commūnis causā semper laborābat.

Question 8

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

Answer 8

7a. Illam gentem Latīnam oppressūrī et dīvitiās raptūrī,

Question 9

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

Answer 9

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

Question 10

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

Answer 10

8. Tollētur fāma huius medicī istīs versibus novīs?

Question 11

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

Answer 11

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

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

11. Multa dedimus gentibus spem carentibus.

Answer 13

11. We gave many things to nations lacking hope.

Question 14

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

Answer 14

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

Question 15

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

Answer 15

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

Question 16

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

Answer 16

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

Question 17

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

Answer 17

1. Vivēs meīs praesidiīs oppressus.

Question 18

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

Answer 18

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

Question 19

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

Answer 19

3. Tantalus sitiēns flūmina ab ōre fugientia tangere dēsiderābat.

Question 20

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

Answer 20

4. Signa rērum futūrārum mundō ā dīs ostenduntur.

Question 21

5. Greece, captured, captured the harsh victor.

Answer 21

5. Graecia capta asperum victōrem cēpit.

Question 22

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

Answer 22

6. Atticus Cicerōnī ex patriā fugientī multam pecūniam dedit.

Question 23

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

Answer 23

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

Question 24

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

Answer 24

8. Saepe stilum verte, bonum libellum scrīptūrus.

Question 25

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

Answer 25

9. Cūra ōrātōris dictūrī eōs audiūrōs dēlectat.

Question 26

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

Answer 26

10. Mortī Sōcratis semper illacrimō, legēns Platōnem.

Question 27

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

Answer 27

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

Question 28

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

Answer 28

12. Quī timēns vivet, līber nōn erit umquam.

Question 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.

Answer 29

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

Question 30

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

Answer 30

14. Verbum semel ēmissum volat irrevocāble.

Question 31

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

Answer 31

1. Oppressī bellō longō et ā deīs āversī,

Question 32

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

Answer 32

2. dūcēs Graecōrum, iam post decem annōs,

Question 33

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

Answer 33

4. magnum equum ligneum arte Minervae faciunt.

Question 34

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

Answer 34

5. Uterum multīs mīlitibus complent,

Question 35

5. the leave the horse on the shore,

Answer 35

6. equum in lītore relinquunt,

Question 36

6. and they sail beyond a nearby island.

Answer 36

7. et ultrā īnsulam proximam nāvigant.

Question 37

7. The Trojans see no troops or ships;

Answer 37

8. Trōiānī nūllās cōpiās aut nāvēs vident;

Question 38

8. all Troy rejoices;

Answer 38

9. omnis Trōia gaudet;

Question 39

9. the gates are opened.

Answer 39

10. panduntur portae.

Question 40

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

Answer 40

11. Dē equō, autem, Trōiānī sunt incertī.

Question 41

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

Answer 41

12. Aliī eum in urbem dūcī cupiunt;

Question 42

12. Others, however, call it Greek tricks.

Answer 42

13. aliī eum Graecās īnsidiās appellant.

Question 43

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

Answer 43

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

Question 44

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

Answer 44

15. “Ō miserī civēs, nōn estis sānī!”

Question 45

15. “What are you thinking?”

Answer 45

16. “Quid cogitātis?”

Question 46

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

Answer 46

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

Question 47

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

Answer 47

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

Question 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.”

Answer 48

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

Question 49

19. “Or something is concealed.”

Answer 49

20. “Aut aliquid latet.”

Question 50

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

Answer 50

21. “Equō nē crēdite, Trōiānī:

Question 51

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

Answer 51

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

Question 52

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

Answer 52

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

Question 53

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

Answer 53

24. stetit illa, tremēns.