Chapter 35a Latin to English

Question 1

1. Minerva, fīlia Iovis, nāta est plēna scientiae et ingeniī.

Answer 1

1. Minerva, the daughter of Jupiter, was born full of knowledge and innate talent.

Question 2

2. Custōdiae sī cum duce nostrō līberē loquantur et huic tyrannum trādere cōnentur, sine perīculō ex moenibus urbis prōtinus ēgredī possint.

Answer 2

2. The guards, should they speak freely with our leader and (should they) try to hand the tyrant (over) to him [lit. “this one”], would be be able to depart immediately from the walls of the city without danger.

Question 3

3. Pārēre lēgibus aequīs melius est quam tyrannō servīre.

Answer 3

3. It is better to obey fair laws than to serve a tyrant.

Question 4

4. Cum optimē honōribus ūsus esset et sibi cīvitātem semper antepōneret, etiam plēbs eī crēdēbat et nōn invidēbat.

Answer 4

4. Since he had enjoyed honors excellently and would always place the state before himself, even the common people trusted him and did not envy (him).

Question 5

5. Diū passa, māter vestra fēlīciter, sedēns apud amīcōs, mortua est.

Answer 5

5. After suffering a long time, your [pl.] mother died happily, sitting with (her) friends [masc.].

Question 6

6. Philosophī cōnsilium spectāvērunt et recūsāvērunt tālem rem suscipere mōlīrīve.

Answer 6

6. Philosophers [masc.] have looked at (the) plan and (have) refused to undertake such an affair or to plan (it).

Question 7

7. Cum dīves sīs atque dīvitiae crēscant, tamen opibus tuīs parcere vīs et nēminī assem offerēs.

Answer 7

7. Although you [sg.] are wealthy and (your) riches are growing, nevertheless you want to spare your resources and you offer no one (even) a penny.

Question 8

8. Ab illā īnsulā subitō profectus, eādem nocte ad patriam nāve advēnit;

Answer 8

8. Having suddenly set out from that island, he/she arrived by ship (on) the same night at (his/her) country;

Question 9

8b. tum, quaerēns remissiōnem animae, diū rūsticābātur.

Answer 9

8b. then, seeking relief for the soul, he/she lived in the country for a long time.

Question 10

9. Hic mīles, cum imperātōrī vestrō nōn placēret, heu, illa praemia prōmissa āmīsit.

Answer 10

9. This soldier, since (?) he did not please your [pl.] general, alas, has lost those promissed rewards.

Question 11

10. Nisi mōrēs parēs scientiae sunt—id nōbīs fatendum est—scientia nōbīs magnopere nocēre potest.

Answer 11

10. Unless morals are equal to knowledge—this is something we need to say—knowledge can harm us a great deal.

Question 12

11. Magistra tum rogāvit duōs parvōs puerōs quot digitōs habērent.

Answer 12

11. The teacher [fem.] at that time asked the two small boys how many fingers they had.

Question 13

12. Māter candida nātae cārissimae subrīdet, quam maximē fovet, et eī plūrima ōscula suāvia dat.

Answer 13

12. The beautiful mother smiles on her extremely dear daughter, whom she nurtures very much, and she gives her very many kisses.

Question 14

13. Why does he now wish to hurt his two friends?

Answer 14

13. Cūr nunc vult nocēre suīs duōbus amīcīs?

Question 15

14. If he does not spare the plebeians, alas, we shall neither trust him nor follow him.

Answer 15

14. Nisi plēbī parcēbit, heu, neque eī crēdēmus neque (eum) sequēmur.

Question 16

15. Since you [sg.] are studying Roman literature, you are serving a very difficult but a very great master.

Answer 16

15. Cum litterīs Rōmānīs studeās, servīs dominō difficillimō sed maximō.

Question 17

16. If they were truly willing to please us, they would not be using their wealth thus against the state.

Answer 17

16. Sī nōbīs placēre vērē vellent, suīs opibus contrā rem pūblicam nōn sīc ūterentur.

Question 18

1. Nēmō liber est quī corporī servit.

Answer 18

1. No one is free who is a servant to his/her body.

Question 19

2. Imperium habēre vīs magnum? Imperā tibi!

Answer 19

2. Do you [sg.] wish to have a great empire? Rule yourself!

Question 20

3. Bonīs nocet quisquis pepercit malīs.

Answer 20

3. Whoever has spared the bad (people) harms the good (people).

Question 21

4. Cum tū omnia pecūniae postpōnās, mīrāris sī nēmō tibi amōrem praestat?

Answer 21

4. Since you [sg.] make everything second to money [lit.: place everything behind money], do you wonder if no one offers you love?

Question 22

5. Frūstrā aut pecūniae aut imperiīs aut opibus aut glōriae student;

Answer 22

5. In vain are they eager for money or commands or wealth or glory;

Question 23

5b. potius studeant virtūtī et honōrī et scientiae et alicui artī.

Answer 23

5b. rather let them be eager for virtue and honor and knowledge and some art.

Question 24

6. Virtūti melius quam Fortūnae crēdāmus;

Answer 24

6. Let us trust in virtue rather than [lit. better than] Fortune;

Question 25

6b. virtūs nōn nōvit calamitātī cēdere.

Answer 25

6. virtue does not know (how to) yield to disaster.

Question 26

7. Et Deus āit: “Faciāmus hominem ad imāginem nostram et praesit piscibus maris bēstiīsque terrae.”

Answer 26

7. And God says, “Let us make man after our (own) image and let him be over [lit. “be ahead of”] the fish of the sea and the beasts of the earth.”

Question 27

8. Omnēs arbitrātī sunt tē dēbēre mihi parcere.

Answer 27

8. All (the people) thought that you should spare me.

Question 28

9. Quid facere vellet, ostendit, et illī servō spē lībertātis magnīsque praemiīs persuāsit.

Answer 28

9. What he wanted to do, he showed, and he persuaded that slave with the hope of freedom and with great rewards.

Question 29

10. Sī cui librī Cicerōnis placent, ille sciat tē prōfēcisse.

Answer 29

10. If the books of Cicero please anyone, he [persumably Cicero] would know that he had been useful [“benefited”]. [or the person would know that he / she had benefited]

Question 30

11. In urbe nostrā mihi contigit docērī quantum īrātus Achillēs Graecīs nocuisset.

Answer 30

10. In our city if fell to me to show how much an angry Achilles had harmed the Greeks.

Question 31

12. Alicui rogantī melius quam iubentī pārēmus.

Answer 31

12. We yield better to somone asking than to (someone) ordering.

Question 32

13. Vīvite fortiter fortiaque pectora rebus adversīs oppōnite.

Answer 32

13. Live [pl.] bravely and set brave hearts [lit. “chests”] against adverse things.

Question 33

14. Nōn ignāra malī, miserīs succurrere disco.

Answer 33

14. Not (myself) ignorant of evil, I [fem.] learn to help the unfortunate [lit. “miserable”].

Question 34

15. Ignōsce saepe alterī, numquam tibi.

Answer 34

15. Forgive another (person) often, never yourself.

Question 35

16. Cum enim tē, deum meum, quaerō, vītam beātam quaerō;

Answer 35

16. For when I seek you, my God, I seek the happy life;

Question 36

16b. quaeram tē ut vīvat anima mea.

Answer 36

16b. I will seek you [or “may I seek you”] for my soul to live.

Question 37

17. Sequere hāc, mea gnāta, mē, cum dīs volentibus.

Answer 37

17. Follow [sg.] in this way, my daughter, with willing gods.

Question 38

1. dactylic hexameter

Answer 38

1. dactylic hexameter

Question 39

1. Scan and read aloud: In nova fert animus mūtātās dīcere fōrmās

Answer 39

1. IN nova FERT animUS MŪTĀTĀS DĪCere FŌRMĀS / The mind compels (me) to speak of shapes changed into new …

Question 40

2. Scan and read aloud: corpora: dī, coeptīs—nam vōs mūtāstis et illās—

Answer 40

2. CORPora: DĪ, COEPTĪS —NAM VŌS MŪTĀStis et ILLĀS— / … bodies: gods, (my) undertakings—for you have changed even those (shapes)—

Question 41

3. Scan and read aloud: adspīrāte meīs prīmāque ab orīgine mundī

Answer 41

3. ADSPĪRĀTe meĪS PRĪMĀqu(e) ab orĪGine MUNDĪ / inspire, and from the first origin of the world

Question 42

4. Scan and read aloud: ad meam perpetuum dēdūcite tempora carmen!

Answer 42

4. AD meam PERpetuUM DĒDŪcite TEMpora CARMen! / into my times lead down an eternal song.

Question 43

5. read aloud and translate Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.1-4: In nova fert animus mūtātās dīcere fōrmās / corpora: dī, coeptīs—nam vōs mūtāstis et illās— / adspīrāte meīs prīmāque ab orīgine mundī / ad meam perpetuum dēdūcite tempora carmen!

Answer 43

5. I want to speak about bodies changed into new forms. You, gods, since you are the ones who alter these, and all other things, inspire my attempt, and spin out a continuous thread of words, from the world’s first origins to my own time. (translated by A. S. Kline).

Question 44

1. Nāsīca ad poētam Ennium venit.

Answer 44

1. Nasica came to the poet Ennius.

Question 45

2. Cum ad iānuam Ennium quaesīvisset et serva respondisset eum in casā nōn esse, sēnsit illam dominī iussū id dīxisse et Ennium vērō esse in casā.

Answer 45

2. When he had asked Ennius to the door and a slave (woman) had replied that he was not in the house, he perceived that she had said this at her master’s order and that Ennius was really in the house.

Question 46

3. Post paucōs diēs, cum Ennius ad Nāsīcam vēnisset et eum ad iānuam quaereret, Nāsīca ipse exclāmāvit sē in casā nōn esse.

Answer 46

3. After a few days, when Ennius had come to Nasica and had asked him to the door, Nasica himself shouted out that he was not in the house.

Question 47

4. Tum Ennius “Quid?” inquit, “Ego nōn cognōscō vōcem tuam?”

Answer 47

4. Then Ennius said, “What? Do I not recognize your voice?”

Question 48

5. Hīc Nāsīca merō cum sale respondit: “Vae, homō es impudēns.”

Answer 48

5. Here Nasica with pure wit answered, “Alas, you are a impudent person.”

Question 49

6. “Ego, cum tē quaererem, servae tuae crēdidī tē nōn in casā esse;”

Answer 49

6. “I (myself), when I was asking for you, believed your slave that you were not in the house;”

Question 50

7. “nōnne tū mihi ipsī nunc crēdis?”

Answer 50

7. “do you not now believe me in person? [lit. “me myself”]?”

Question 51

1. scan and read aloud (elegiac couplet) Nūbere vīs Prīscō. Nōn miror, Paula sapīstī. / Dūcere tē nōn vult Prīscus: et ille sapit!”

Answer 51

1. NŪBere VĪS pRĪSCŌ. nŌN miror, PAULa sapĪSTĪ. / DŪCere TĒ NŌN VULT Prīscus: et ILLe sapit!”

Question 52

2. Translate Martial 9.10: Nūbere vīs Prīscō. Nōn miror, Paula sapīstī. / Dūcere tē nōn vult Prīscus: et ille sapit!”

Answer 52

2. You want to marry Priscus. I am not surprised, Paula; you have been wise. / Priscus does not want to marry you: he too is wise!

Question 53

1. choliambic meter

Answer 53

1. choliambic meter

Question 54

2. scan and read aloud: Petit Gemellus nūptiās Marōnillae / et cupit et īnstat et precātur et dōnat. / Adeōne pulchra est? Immo, foedius nīl est. / Quid ergō in illā petitur et placet? Tussit!

Answer 54

2. scan and read aloud: PetIT GemELLUS NŪptiĀS MarŌNILLAE / ET cupit et ĪNstat ET precĀTur ET DŌNAT / Adeōne PULchr(a) est? IMMo, FOEDiUS NĪL EST. Quid ERG(ō) in ILLā petitur ET placET? TUSSIT!

Question 55

6. read aloud and translate Martial 1.10, 1-2: Petit Gemellus nūptiās Marōnillae / et cupit et īnstat et precātur et dōnat.

Answer 55

6. Gemellus seeks the marriage of Maronilla and desires it and insists and begs and gives.

Question 56

7. read aloud and translate Martial 1.10, 3-4: Adeōne pulchra est? Immo, foedius nīl est. / Quid ergō in illā petitur et placet? Tussit!

Answer 56

7. Is she so beautiful? On the contrary, nothing is more disgusting. What then in her is sought for and pleases? She has a cough.

Question 57

2. scan, read aloud, and translate: Ludī magister, parce simplicī turbae:

Answer 57

2. Ludī maGISter, PARce SIMplicĪ TURBAE: master of school, spare your simple crowd:

Question 58

3. scan, read aloud, and translate: aestāte puerī sī valent, satis discunt.

Answer 58

3. AESTĀTe puerī sī vaLENT, saTIS DISCUNT / In the summer if the boys are well, they learn enough.