Chapter 27b English to Latin

Question 1

1. Each (person) wants to give the most beautiful and useful gifts.

Answer 1

1. Quisque cupit quam pulcherrima atque ūtilissima dōna dare.

Question 2

2. Some base (people) have very many (things) …

Answer 2

2. Quīdam turpēs habent plūrima ….

Question 3

2b. but they seek even more.

Answer 3

2b. sed etiam plūra petunt.

Question 4

3. That orator, (having been) expelled by the extremely proud tyrant,

Answer 4

3. Ille orator, ab tyrannō superbissimō expulsus,

Question 5

3b. next sought [quaerō] a more pleasant leader and more equitable laws.

Answer 5

3b. ducem iūcundiōrem et lēges aequiōrēs dehinc quaesīvit.

Question 6

4. Supreme power should always be sought [petō] by the best men. [passive periphrastic]

Answer 6

4. Summum imperium optimīs virīs semper petendum est.

Question 7

5. The old man opened (his) house to his sad grandsons …

Answer 7

5. Senex nepōtibus trīstibus casam patefēcit …

Question 8

5b. and invited them across the threshold.

Answer 8

5b. et eōs trans līmen invītāvit.

Question 9

6. He/she showed [ostendō] that the final signal had been given by the enemy on that night with an extremely bright light.

Answer 9

6. Ostendit [perfect] ultimum signum lūce clārissmā ab hostibus illā nocte datum esse.

Question 10

7. That extremely bad tyrant denied that he had ever oppressed free men.

Answer 10

7. Iste tyrannus pessimus negāvit sē virōs līberōs umquam oppressisse.

Question 11

8. The most faithful slave was receiving more of the dinner at [lit. “up to”] the table than three worse ones.

Answer 11

8. Fidēlissimus servus plus cēnae ad mēnsam accipiēbat quam trēs peiōrēs.

Question 12

9. They say that this author is living an extremely humble life here.

Answer 12

9. Āiunt hunc auctōrem vītam humillimam hīc agere.

Question 13

10. Why did the gods above turn (their) eyes from human affairs at that time?

Answer 13

10. Cūr dī superī oculōs ā rēbus hūmānīs eō tempore āvertērunt?

Question 14

11. Do you consider [habeō] money and your [sg.] affairs before the commonwealth?

Answer 14

11. Habēsne pecūniam et rēs tuās prae rē pūblicā?

Question 15

12. We can see the sun in the sky behind a few extremely thin clouds.

Answer 15

12. Sōlem post paucās nūbēs gracillimās in caelō hodiē vidēre possumus.

Question 16

13. Quīdam putant urbēs maximās peiōrēs esse quam minimās.

Answer 16

13. Some believe [putō] that very large cities are worse than very small ones.

Question 17

14. Prō tribus minōribus donīs,

Answer 17

14. In return for the three rather small gifts,

Question 18

14b. adulēscēns dedit etiam plūrima et pulchriōra trīstissimae mātrī.

Answer 18

14b. the young man gave even more and prettier ones to his very sad mother.

Question 19

15. Illī montēs maximī erant altiōrēs quam hī.

Answer 19

15. Those very large mountains were higher than these.

Question 20

1. A new force is dragging me:

Answer 20

1. Trahit mē nova vīs:

Question 21

1b. I see the better (things) and I approve them;

Answer 21

1b. vidēo meliōra probōque,

Question 22

1c. But I only do the worse and I don’t know why.

Answer 22

1c. sed peiōra tantum faciō et nescīo cūr.

Question 23

2. Some songs (poems) are good; more are bad.

Answer 23

2. Quaedam carmina sunt bona; plūra sunt mala.

Question 24

3. It’s (for the) best.

Answer 24

3. Optimum est.

Question 25

3b. I have seen nothing better, nothing more beautiful, than this (or him).

Answer 25

3b. Nihil melius, nihil pulchrius hōc vīdī.

Question 26

4. I hope that you [male, sg.] will have [lit: “do”] both this birthday and very many others as happy as possible. [= “Many happy returns of the day!]

Answer 26

4. Spērō tē et hunc nātālem et plūrimōs aliōs quam fēlīcissimōs āctūrum esse.

Question 27

5. Since counsel and reason are in old (men),

Answer 27

5. Quoniam cōnsilium et ratio sunt in senibus,

Question 28

5b. our ancestors named the highest council “senate.”

Answer 28

5b. maiōrēs nostrī summum concilium appellāvērunt “senātum.”

Question 29

6. More (of) work and study should now be placed by us in domestic affairs even than in military affairs.

Answer 29

6. Plūs operae studiīque in rēbus domesticīs nōbīs nunc pōnendum est etiam quam in rēbus mīlitāribus.

Question 30

7. For never in the commonwealth was ever danger more serious nor leisure greater.

Answer 30

7. Neque enim perīculum in rē pūblicā fuit gravius umquam neque ōtium maius.

Question 31

8. We are wiser than those (people),

Answer 31

8. Sumus sapientiōrēs illīs,

Question 32

8b. because we (ourselves) know that nature is the best [feminine, agreeing with natūram] leader.

Answer 32

8a. quod nōs nātūram esse optimam ducem scīmus.

Question 33

9. Nature seeks (a) very little (thing);

Answer 33

9. Nātūra minimum petit;

Question 34

9b. but the wise (person) accommodates himself/herself to nature.

Answer 34

9a. nātūrae autem sē sapiēns accommodat.

Question 35

10. The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Answer 35

10. Maximum remedium īrae mora est.

Question 36

11. (He) who conquers his mind and contains anger, him I do not compare to the highest men …

Answer 36

11. Quī animum vincit et īram continet, eum cum summīs virīs nōn comparō …

Question 37

11b. but I say he is most like to a god.

Answer 37

11a. sed eum esse simillimum deō dīcō.

Question 38

12. Dionysius, the tyrant of a very beautiful city,

Answer 38

12. Dionȳsius, tyrannus urbis pulcherrimae,

Question 39

12b. was a man of the greatest temperance in (his) way of life ….

Answer 39

12b. erat vir summae in vīctū temperantiae …

Question 40

12c. and (he was) most diligent and eager in all affairs.

Answer 40

12c. et in omnibus rebus dīligentissimus et ācerrimus.

Question 41

12d. This same (person), however, was fierce and unjust.

Answer 41

12d. Īdem tamen erat ferōx ac iniūstus.

Question 42

12e. For that reason, if we speak the truth, he seemed (to be) extremely miserable.

Answer 42

12e. Quā ex rē, sī vērum dīcimus, vidēbatur miserrimus.

Question 43

13. Unless I am able to turn the (gods) above, I will move Acheron.

Answer 43

13. Nisi superōs vetere possum, Acheronta movēbō.

Question 44

1. The young man is dearer to me me than I am myself!

Answer 44

1. Adulēscēns est cārior mihi quam ego ipse!

Question 45

2. And this (young man) is not by son but (the son) from my brother.

Answer 45

2. Atque hic nōn est fīlius meus sed ex frātre meō.

Question 46

3. The pursuits of (my) brother are now for a long time very different from mine.

Answer 46

3. Studia frātris iam diū sunt dissimillima meīs.

Question 47

4. I (myself) have lived a city life and I have sought leisure and

Answer 47

4. Ego vītam urbānam ēgī et ōtium petīvī et,

Question 48

5. —a thing which some (people) think is more fortunate—

Answer 48

5. id quod quīdam fortūnātius putant,

Question 49

6. I have never had a wife.

Answer 49

6. uxōrem numquam habuī.

Question 50

7. That (one), however, has done all these things:

Answer 50

7. Ille, autem, haec omnia fēcit:

Question 51

8. he has lived his life not in the forum but in the fields,

Answer 51

8. nōn in forō sed in agrīs vītam ēgit,

Question 52

9. he has received a small (amount of) money,

Answer 52

9. parvum pecūniae accēpit,

Question 53

10. he has married a chaste wife,

Answer 53

10. uxōrem pudīcam dūxit,

Question 54

11. he has had two sons.

Answer 54

11. duōs fīliōs habuit.

Question 55

12. From him I myself have adopted this older (one) for myself,

Answer 55

12. Ex illō ego hunc maiōrem adoptāvī mihi,

Question 56

13. I have raised (him) from a small boy,

Answer 56

13. ēduxī ā parvō puerō,

Question 57

14. I have loved him as though my own.

Answer 57

14. amāvī prō meō.

Question 58

15. In this young man is my delight;

Answer 58

15. In eō adulēscente est dēlectātiō mea;

Question 59

16. this is the only thing dear to me.

Answer 59

16. sōlum id est cārum mihi.