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Chapter 35a Latin to English Flashcards

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  1. Minerva, fīlia Iovis, nāta est plēna scientiae et ingeniī.
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  1. Minerva, the daughter of Jupiter, was born full of knowledge and innate talent.
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  1. Custōdiae sī cum duce nostrō līberē loquantur et huic tyrannum trādere cōnentur, sine perīculō ex moenibus urbis prōtinus ēgredī possint.
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  1. 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.
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  1. Pārēre lēgibus aequīs melius est quam tyrannō servīre.
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  1. It is better to obey fair laws than to serve a tyrant.
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  1. Cum optimē honōribus ūsus esset et sibi cīvitātem semper antepōneret, etiam plēbs eī crēdēbat et nōn invidēbat.
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  1. 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).
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  1. Diū passa, māter vestra fēlīciter, sedēns apud amīcōs, mortua est.
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  1. After suffering a long time, your [pl.] mother died happily, sitting with (her) friends [masc.].
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  1. Philosophī cōnsilium spectāvērunt et recūsāvērunt tālem rem suscipere mōlīrīve.
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  1. Philosophers [masc.] have looked at (the) plan and (have) refused to undertake such an affair or to plan (it).
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  1. Cum dīves sīs atque dīvitiae crēscant, tamen opibus tuīs parcere vīs et nēminī assem offerēs.
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  1. 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.
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  1. Ab illā īnsulā subitō profectus, eādem nocte ad patriam nāve advēnit;
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  1. Having suddenly set out from that island, he/she arrived by ship (on) the same night at (his/her) country;
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8b. tum, quaerēns remissiōnem animae, diū rūsticābātur.

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

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  1. Hic mīles, cum imperātōrī vestrō nōn placēret, heu, illa praemia prōmissa āmīsit.
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  1. This soldier, since (?) he did not please your [pl.] general, alas, has lost those promissed rewards.
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  1. Nisi mōrēs parēs scientiae sunt—id nōbīs fatendum est—scientia nōbīs magnopere nocēre potest.
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  1. Unless morals are equal to knowledge—this is something we need to say—knowledge can harm us a great deal.
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  1. Magistra tum rogāvit duōs parvōs puerōs quot digitōs habērent.
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  1. The teacher [fem.] at that time asked the two small boys how many fingers they had.
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  1. Māter candida nātae cārissimae subrīdet, quam maximē fovet, et eī plūrima ōscula suāvia dat.
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  1. The beautiful mother smiles on her extremely dear daughter, whom she nurtures very much, and she gives her very many kisses.
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  1. Why does he now wish to hurt his two friends?
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  1. Cūr nunc vult nocēre suīs duōbus amīcīs?
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  1. If he does not spare the plebeians, alas, we shall neither trust him nor follow him.
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  1. Nisi plēbī parcēbit, heu, neque eī crēdēmus neque (eum) sequēmur.
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  1. Since you [sg.] are studying Roman literature, you are serving a very difficult but a very great master.
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  1. Cum litterīs Rōmānīs studeās, servīs dominō difficillimō sed maximō.
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  1. If they were truly willing to please us, they would not be using their wealth thus against the state.
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  1. Sī nōbīs placēre vērē vellent, suīs opibus contrā rem pūblicam nōn sīc ūterentur.
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  1. Nēmō liber est quī corporī servit.
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  1. No one is free who is a servant to his/her body.
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  1. Imperium habēre vīs magnum? Imperā tibi!
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  1. Do you [sg.] wish to have a great empire? Rule yourself!
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  1. Bonīs nocet quisquis pepercit malīs.
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  1. Whoever has spared the bad (people) harms the good (people).
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  1. Cum tū omnia pecūniae postpōnās, mīrāris sī nēmō tibi amōrem praestat?
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  1. Since you [sg.] make everything second to money [lit.: place everything behind money], do you wonder if no one offers you love?
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  1. Frūstrā aut pecūniae aut imperiīs aut opibus aut glōriae student;
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  1. In vain are they eager for money or commands or wealth or glory;
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5b. potius studeant virtūtī et honōrī et scientiae et alicui artī.

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

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  1. Virtūti melius quam Fortūnae crēdāmus;
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  1. Let us trust in virtue rather than [lit. better than] Fortune;
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6b. virtūs nōn nōvit calamitātī cēdere.

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  1. virtue does not know (how to) yield to disaster.
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  1. Et Deus āit: “Faciāmus hominem ad imāginem nostram et praesit piscibus maris bēstiīsque terrae.”
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  1. 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.”
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  1. Omnēs arbitrātī sunt tē dēbēre mihi parcere.
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  1. All (the people) thought that you should spare me.
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  1. Quid facere vellet, ostendit, et illī servō spē lībertātis magnīsque praemiīs persuāsit.
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  1. What he wanted to do, he showed, and he persuaded that slave with the hope of freedom and with great rewards.
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  1. Sī cui librī Cicerōnis placent, ille sciat tē prōfēcisse.
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  1. 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]
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  1. In urbe nostrā mihi contigit docērī quantum īrātus Achillēs Graecīs nocuisset.
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  1. In our city if fell to me to show how much an angry Achilles had harmed the Greeks.
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  1. Alicui rogantī melius quam iubentī pārēmus.
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  1. We yield better to somone asking than to (someone) ordering.
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  1. Vīvite fortiter fortiaque pectora rebus adversīs oppōnite.
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  1. Live [pl.] bravely and set brave hearts [lit. “chests”] against adverse things.
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  1. Nōn ignāra malī, miserīs succurrere disco.
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  1. Not (myself) ignorant of evil, I [fem.] learn to help the unfortunate [lit. “miserable”].
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  1. Ignōsce saepe alterī, numquam tibi.
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  1. Forgive another (person) often, never yourself.
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  1. Cum enim tē, deum meum, quaerō, vītam beātam quaerō;
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  1. For when I seek you, my God, I seek the happy life;
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16b. quaeram tē ut vīvat anima mea.

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

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  1. Sequere hāc, mea gnāta, mē, cum dīs volentibus.
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  1. Follow [sg.] in this way, my daughter, with willing gods.
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  1. dactylic hexameter
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  1. dactylic hexameter
39
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  1. Scan and read aloud: In nova fert animus mūtātās dīcere fōrmās
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  1. IN nova FERT animUS MŪTĀTĀS DĪCere FŌRMĀS / The mind compels (me) to speak of shapes changed into new …
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  1. Scan and read aloud: corpora: dī, coeptīs—nam vōs mūtāstis et illās—
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  1. CORPora: DĪ, COEPTĪS —NAM VŌS MŪTĀStis et ILLĀS— / … bodies: gods, (my) undertakings—for you have changed even those (shapes)—
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  1. Scan and read aloud: adspīrāte meīs prīmāque ab orīgine mundī
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  1. ADSPĪRĀTe meĪS PRĪMĀqu(e) ab orĪGine MUNDĪ / inspire, and from the first origin of the world
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  1. Scan and read aloud: ad meam perpetuum dēdūcite tempora carmen!
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  1. AD meam PERpetuUM DĒDŪcite TEMpora CARMen! / into my times lead down an eternal song.
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  1. 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!
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  1. 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).
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  1. Nāsīca ad poētam Ennium venit.
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  1. Nasica came to the poet Ennius.
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  1. 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.
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  1. 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.
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  1. Post paucōs diēs, cum Ennius ad Nāsīcam vēnisset et eum ad iānuam quaereret, Nāsīca ipse exclāmāvit sē in casā nōn esse.
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  1. 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.
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  1. Tum Ennius “Quid?” inquit, “Ego nōn cognōscō vōcem tuam?”
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  1. Then Ennius said, “What? Do I not recognize your voice?”
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  1. Hīc Nāsīca merō cum sale respondit: “Vae, homō es impudēns.”
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  1. Here Nasica with pure wit answered, “Alas, you are a impudent person.”
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  1. “Ego, cum tē quaererem, servae tuae crēdidī tē nōn in casā esse;”
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  1. “I (myself), when I was asking for you, believed your slave that you were not in the house;”
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  1. “nōnne tū mihi ipsī nunc crēdis?”
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  1. “do you not now believe me in person? [lit. “me myself”]?”
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  1. scan and read aloud (elegiac couplet) Nūbere vīs Prīscō. Nōn miror, Paula sapīstī. / Dūcere tē nōn vult Prīscus: et ille sapit!”
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  1. NŪBere VĪS pRĪSCŌ. nŌN miror, PAULa sapĪSTĪ. / DŪCere TĒ NŌN VULT Prīscus: et ILLe sapit!”
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  1. Translate Martial 9.10: Nūbere vīs Prīscō. Nōn miror, Paula sapīstī. / Dūcere tē nōn vult Prīscus: et ille sapit!”
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  1. 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!
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  1. choliambic meter
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  1. choliambic meter
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  1. 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!
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  1. 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!
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  1. read aloud and translate Martial 1.10, 1-2: Petit Gemellus nūptiās Marōnillae / et cupit et īnstat et precātur et dōnat.
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  1. Gemellus seeks the marriage of Maronilla and desires it and insists and begs and gives.
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  1. read aloud and translate Martial 1.10, 3-4: Adeōne pulchra est? Immo, foedius nīl est. / Quid ergō in illā petitur et placet? Tussit!
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  1. Is she so beautiful? On the contrary, nothing is more disgusting. What then in her is sought for and pleases? She has a cough.
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  1. scan, read aloud, and translate: Ludī magister, parce simplicī turbae:
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  1. Ludī maGISter, PARce SIMplicĪ TURBAE: master of school, spare your simple crowd:
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  1. scan, read aloud, and translate: aestāte puerī sī valent, satis discunt.
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  1. AESTĀTe puerī sī vaLENT, saTIS DISCUNT / In the summer if the boys are well, they learn enough.

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