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Chapter 25b. English to Latin Flashcards

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  1. “Each person,” he/she says, “always thinks his/her (own) affairs are important.”
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  1. “Quisque,” inquit, “semper putat suās rēs esse magnās.”
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  1. Afterwards we heard that the slaves [male] had labored for the sake of gifts,
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  1. Posteā audīvimus servōs dōnōrum causā labōrāvisse,
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2b. as the faithful soldiers had reported yesterday.

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2b. ut mīlitēs fidēlēs heri nārrāverant.

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  1. Our neighbors next with great courage turned away the force of the fire,
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  1. Vīcīnī nostrī vim ignis magnā virtūte dehinc āvertērunt,
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3b. because they wanted praise and gifts.

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3b. quod laudem atque dōna cupīvērunt.

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  1. This sign of danger will touch our whole race,
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  1. Hoc signum perīculī tōtam gentem nostram tanget,
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4b. unless we will be able to take the enemy from city and drive (him/her) from Italy.

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4b. nisi hostem ex urbe excipere ac ab Italiā pellere poterimus.

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  1. After the fierce leader of Carthage is expelled,
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  1. Duce ferōcī Carthāginis expulsō,
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5b. the hopes [or singular] and fears [or singular] of great-hearted men will contain the commonwealth.

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5b. spēs fidēsque virōrum magnanimōrum rem pūblicam continēbunt.

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  1. Why was pleasant Horace always displaying human faults in (his) satires and laughing (a them)?
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  1. Cūr iucundus Horātius culpās hūmānās in saturīs semper ostendēbat atque rīdēbat?
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  1. We believe that the ancient faith will again be nourished by all the nations.
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  1. Crēdimus fidem antīquam omnibus gentibus iterum alendam esse.
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  1. The leader, being about to undertake the duty, accepted power and was made general.
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  1. Dux, officium susceptūrus, imperium accēpit et imperātor factus est.
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  1. The commonwealth, as he/she says, can be destroyed [or “raised up”] by books of this kind.
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  1. Rēs pūblica, ut āit, libellīs huius modī tollī potest.
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  1. Some (people) deny that enemies defeated by slavery should ever be oppressed [use passive periphrastic].
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  1. Aliquī negant hostēs victōs servitūte umquam opprimendōs esse.
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  1. They believe that the wise teacher [female] will expose the truth.
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  1. Crēdunt magistram sapientem vēritātem patefactūram esse.
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  1. Whoever seeks the truth and accepts it will be educated well.
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  1. Quisquis vēritātem quaeret atque recipiet bene ēducābitur.
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  1. Crēdidimus sorōres vestrās lītterās scrībere.
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  1. We thought that your [plural] sisters were writing the letter.
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  1. Ostendent lītterās ā servā fortī scrībī.
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  1. They will show that the letter was written by the brave slavegirl.
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  1. Ōrātor dīxit librum numquam scrīptum esse.
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  1. The orator said that the book had never been written.
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  1. Sperāmus uxōrem iūdicis illās duās lītterās crās scrīptūram esse.
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  1. We hope that the judge’s wife will write those two letters tomorrow.
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  1. He did not at that time deny that it had been done.
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  1. Id factum esse tum nōn negāvit.
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  1. After these matters were proposed,
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  1. Hīs rēbus prōnūntiātīs,
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2b. therefore, you [sg.] knew he was an enemy.

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2b. igitur, eum esse hostem scīvistī.

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  1. Now you [sg.] feel that he is awaited by the enemy [lit. “enemies”].
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  1. Eum ab hostibus exspectārī nunc sentīs.
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  1. I saw that they [male] had remained in the city and were with us.
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  1. Vīdī eōs in urbe remānsisse et nōbīscum esse.
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  1. And so I perceive that that eternal war with evil citizens has been undertaken by me.
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  1. Itaque aeternum bellum cum malīs cīvibus ā mē susceptum esse cernō.
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  1. I believe that the same (thing) must be done by you [sg]. [passive perphrastic]
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  1. Idem crēdō tibi faciendum esse.
28
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  1. For I knew [imperfect] that you were faithful to me.
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  1. Tē enim esse fidēlem mihi sciēbam.
29
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  1. While the enemy [lit. plural] were turning themselves against the state,
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  1. Hostibus sē in cīvitātem vertentibus,
30
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8b. the senate announced to Cincinnatus that he had been made dictator.

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8b. senātus Cincinnātō nūntiāvit eum factum esse dictātōrem.

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  1. I say that you, Pyrrhus, can defeat the Romans.
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  1. Dīcō tē, Pyrrhe, Rōmānōs posse vincere.
32
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  1. Say to Sparta, stranger, that you have seen us lying here, faithful to (our) country.
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  1. Dīc, hospes, Spartae tē nōs hīc iacentēs vīdisse, patriae fidēlēs.
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  1. Socrates thought that he was a citizen of the whole world.
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  1. Sōcratēs putābat sē esse cīvem tōtius mundī.
34
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  1. Those magistrates deny that any man can be good unless (he is) wise.
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  1. Illī magistrī negant quemquem virum esse bonum nisi sapientem.
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  1. I denied, however, that death was to be feared. [passive periphrastic]
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  1. Negāvī, autem, mortem timendam esse.
36
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  1. I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls into human bodies.
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  1. Crēdō deōs immortālēs sparsisse spīritūs in corpora hūmāna.
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  1. The young man hopes that he will live a long time;
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  1. Adulēscēns spērat sē diū vīctūrum esse;
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15b. the old man can say that he has lived a long time.

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15b. senex potest dīcere sē diū vīxisse.

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  1. For they say that much is to be read, not many (things). [passive periphrastic]
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  1. Āiunt enim multum legendum esse, nōn multa.
40
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  1. Here another great fear (O sad story!) frightens our blind minds.
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  1. Hīc alius magnus timor (Ō fābula misera!) animōs caecōs nostrōs terret.
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  1. Laocoön, made a priest of Neptune by fortune,
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  1. Lāocoōn, sacerdōs Neptūnī fortūnā factus,
42
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  1. was sacrificing a fierce bull onto an altar on the shore.
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  1. ācrem taurum ad āram in lītore mactābat.
43
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  1. Then powerful twin snakes, pressing the sea, run from the island to the shores.
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  1. Tum geminī serpentēs potentēs, mare prementēs, ab īnsulā ad lītora currunt.
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  1. And already they were holding the fields and,
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  1. Iamque agrōs tenēbant et,
45
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  1. with (their) eyes blazing with fire,
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  1. oculīs igne ardentibus,
46
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  1. they were licking (their) faces with hissing tongues.
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7 . ōra linguīs sībilīs lambēbant.

47
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  1. We all flee;
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  1. Nōs omnēs fugimus;
48
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  1. those (ones) seek Laocoön and his sons by a sure road.
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  1. illī viā certā Lāocoonta fīliōsque eius petunt.
49
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  1. First they seize the small bodies of the two boys and tear them to pieces and kill them and devour them.
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  1. Prīmum parva corpora duōrum puerōrum capiunt et lacerant necantque dēvōrantque.
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  1. Then they snatch the brave father, running to (his) miserable sons …
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  1. Tum patrem fortem, ad fīliōs miserōs currentem, rapiunt …
51
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11a. and they hold (him) in (their) big coils and they overpower (him).

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11a. et magnīs spīrīs tenent et superant.

52
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  1. Nor can he defend himself from wounds or flee,
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  1. Nec sē ā vulneribus dēfendere nec fugere potest,
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  1. and he himself, like a wounded bull at the altar, raises horrible shouts to the sky.
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  1. et ipse, ut taurus saucius ad āram, clāmōrēs horrendōs ad caelum tollit.
54
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  1. At the same time the snakes flee,
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  1. Eōdem tempore serpentēs fugiunt,
55
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14b. and they seek refuge in the citadel of fierce Minerva.

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14b petuntque perfugium in arce Minervae ācris.

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  1. Because Laocoön had thrown a spear into Minerva’s horse,
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  1. Quod Lāocoōn in equum Minervae hastam iēcerat,
57
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  1. we thought that he had made a mistake and had paid the penalty [lit. plural];
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  1. nōs putāvimus eum errāvisse et poenās dedisse;
58
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  1. we did not know the harsh truth.
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  1. vēritātem acerbam nescīvimus.
59
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  1. We open the gates and we admit that (dreadful) horse into the city;
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  1. Portās patefacimus et admittimus istum equum in urbem;
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  1. and the boys and girls—o fatherland, o great gods, o Troy—are glad to touch it.
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  1. ac puerī puellaeque—Ō patria, Ō dī magnī, Ō Trōia—eum tangere gaudent.
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  1. And also we miserable (ones) are glad,
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  1. Et quoque gaudēmus nōs miserī,
62
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  1. for whom that day was the last …
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  1. quibus ille diēs fuit ultimus …
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21b. and for whom there will never be any consolation.

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21b. ac quibus numquam erit ūllum sōlācium.

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