Chapter 34b. English to Latin

Question 1

1. Unless someone brings help to the (common) people quickly and provides the promised assistance, a thousand (of the) poor will die.

Answer 1

1. Nisi quis plēbī opem celeriter referet auxiliumve prōmissum praebēbit, mīlia pauperum morientur.

Question 2

2. Since the city was full of guards, you [pl.] did not dare to undertake crimes what were as serious as you had wanted.

Answer 2

2. Cum urbs plēna custōdiārum esset, nōn ausī estis suscipere scelera tam gravia quam voluerātis.

Question 3

3. Say now why you [sg.] want to betake yourself to that wealthy and beautiful [woman].

Answer 3

3. Dīc nunc cūr velīs tē ad istam dīvitem et candidam cōnferre.

Question 4

3b. Speak [sg.] truly and freely; do not refuse!

Answer 4

3b. Vērē ac līberē loquere; nōlī recūsāre!

Question 5

4. After the riches and resources had been handed over, alas, those philosophers [male] on the same night suddenly set out into exile, whence they were never able to emerge.

Answer 5

4. Dīvitiīs opisbusque trāditīs, heu, illī philosophī eādem nocte subitō profectī sunt in exilium, unde numquam ēgredī potuērunt.

Question 6

5. Let us not allow this most ancient knowledge to be lost.

Answer 6

5. Nē patiāmur hanc antīquissimam scientiam āmittī.

Question 7

6. I confess that I am going to enjoy undiluted wine at my house.

Answer 7

6. Fateor mē vīnō merō apud mē ūsūrum esse.

Question 8

7. From the start you [sg.] did not understand how large an army was following us and how many elephants those (dreadful) soldiers were leading with them.

Answer 8

7. Ab initiō nōn comprehendistī quantus exercitus nōs sequerētur et quot elephantōs istī mīlitēs sēcum dūcerent.

Question 9

8. At first he answered that he did not want to follow a leader of moderate courage and wisdom, although (?) the state was standing on the threshold of war.

Answer 9

8. Prīmō respondit sē nōlle sequī ducem mediocris virtūtis sapientiaeve, cum cīvitās in līmine bellī stāret.

Question 10

9. Having suddenly come out from the city, he tried tried once to die with his (own) sword.

Answer 10

9. Ex urbe subitō ēgressus, ferrō suō morī semel cōnātus est.

Question 11

10. Although urged people to virtue, nevertheless he thought that virtue was not born in humans.

Answer 11

10. Cum Aristotelēs hortārētur hominēs ad virtūtem, tamen arbitrābātur virtūtem in hominibus nōn nāscī.

Question 12

11. Mother and father now very much prefer to live in the country, so that they can more happily enjoy sweet release from (their) labors.

Answer 12

11. Māter paterque nunc rūsticārī plūrimum mālunt, ut ā labōribus remissiōne suāvī fēlīcius ūtantur.

Question 13

12. Give me, please, a lot of salt, and wine, and water, so that I may enjoy the dinner very much.

Answer 13

12. Dā mihi, amābō tē, multum salis et vīnum aquamve, ut cēnā maximē ūtar.

Question 14

13. Nōn passae sunt mē eō tempore loquī cum eō.

Answer 14

13. They [fem.] did not permit me to speak with him at that time.

Question 15

14. Arbitrābāmur eum, propter paūpertātem plēbis, officiō sapientius ūsūrum esse.

Answer 15

14. We kept thinking (arbitror) that, on account of the plebeians’ poverty, he would use the office more wisely.

Question 16

15. Sī quis hāc aquā etiam semel utātur, moriātur.

Answer 16

15. If any one should use this water even once, he would die.

Question 17

16. Sī illī quattuor mīlitēs nōs secūtī essent, nōn ausī essēmus arma in nāvibus pōnere.

Answer 17

16. If those four soldiers had followed us, we [male] would not have dared to put the weapons on the ships.

Question 18

17. Haec cēna bona erit, dummodo sale utāminī.

Answer 18

17. This dinner will be good, provided that you [pl.] use salt.

Question 19

1. Let us yield to Apollo and, having been warned, let us follow better (paths).

Answer 19

1. Cēdāmus Phoebō et, monitī, meliōra sequāmur.

Question 20

2. For no one is born without faults; that one is best who has the smallest ones.

Answer 20

2. Nam nēmō sine vitiīs nāscitur; optimus ille est quī minima habet.

Question 21

3. The worlds is the common city of gods and of humans;

Answer 21

3. Mundus est commūnis urbs deōrum atque hominum;

Question 22

3b. for these [i.e. humans] alone, using reason, live by justice and law.

Answer 22

3b. hī enim sōlī, ratiōne ūtentēs, iūre ac lēge vīvunt.

Question 23

4. A wise person becomes angry slowly, but seriously.

Answer 23

4. Tardē sed graviter vir sapiēns īrāscitur.

Question 24

5. Since these things are so, Catiline, depart from the city;

Answer 24

5. Quae cum ita sint, Catilīna, ēgredere ex urbe;

Question 25

5b. the gates are open; get going;

Answer 25

5b. patent portae; proficīscere;

Question 26

5c. you cannot now remain with us longer;

Answer 26

5c. nōbīscum versārī iam diūtius nōn potes;

Question 27

5d. this I will not bear, I will not endure.

Answer 27

5d. id nōn feram, nōn patiar.

Question 28

6. Care follows increasing money and the rich (person) sleeps badly.

Answer 28

6. Cūra pecūniam crēscentem sequitur et dives male dormit.

Question 29

7. If you had set out for Britain, no one in that island would have been more skilled in law.

Answer 29

7. Sī in Britanniam profectus essēs, nēmō in illā tantā īnsulā iūre perītor fuisset.

Question 30

8. Unless new praise is born even old praise lies in (an) uncertain (state) and is often lost.

Answer 30

8. Nisi laus nova nāscitur etiam vetus laus in incertō iacet ac saepe āmittitur.

Question 31

9. I hope, however, that I have followed such temperance in my books that no good (man) can complain about them.

Answer 31

9. Spērō autem mē secūtum esse in libellīs meīs tālem temperantiam ut nēmō bonus dē illīs querī possit.

Question 32

10. The hours, indeed, and the days and the years depart;

Answer 32

10. Hōrae quidem et dies et annī discēdunt;

Question 33

10b. nor does past time ever return, nor is it possible to know what follows.

Answer 33

10b nec praeteritum tempus umquam reveritur, nec quid sequātur potest scīrī.

Question 34

11. You know the morals of women; while they plan, while they try, while they look (in) the mirror, a year slips (by).

Answer 34

11. Nōvistī mores mulierum: dum mōliuntur, dum cōnantur, dum speculum spectant, annus lābitur.

Question 35

12. Friendship contains very many things; we do not use water, (we do) not (use) fire in more places than friendship.

Answer 35

12. Amīcitia rēs plūrimās continent; nōn aquā, nōn igne in plūribus locīs ūtimur quam amīcitiā.

Question 36

13. (What a) stupid person! After he began to have riches, he is dead!.

Answer 36

13. Homō stultus! Postquam dīvitiās habēre coepit, mortuus est!

Question 37

14. O you [pl.] who have suffered rather serious (things), the god will give and end to these (things) too.

Answer 37

14. Ō passī graviōra, dabit deus hīs quoque finem.

Question 38

1. And that one, in fact bubbled out his soul, and from that point on ceased to seem to live.

Answer 38

1. Et ille quidem animam ēbullit, et ex eō dēsiit vīvere vidēri.

Question 39

2. However he expired while he was listening [lit. present] to comic actors, so that you know that I fear them not without reason.

Answer 39

2. Exspīrāvit autem dum comoedōs audit, ut sciās mē nōn sine causā illōs timēre.

Question 40

3. This, his last sound, was heard among humans, when had emitted a rather large sound from that part (of his body) where he would talk more easily:

Answer 40

3. Ultima vōx eius haec inter hominēs audīta est, cum maiōrem sonitum ēmisisset illā parte quā facilius loquēbātur:

Question 41

4. “Woe is me, I think, I have beshat myself!”

Answer 41

4. “Vae mē, putō, concacavī!”

Question 42

5. Whether he (in fact) did this, I do not know; certainly he shat on everything!

Answer 42

1. Et ille quidem animam ēbullit, et ex eō dēsiit vīvere vidēri.