Chapter 35b English to Latin

Question 1

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

Answer 1

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

Question 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.

Answer 2

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

Question 3

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

Answer 3

3. Pārēre lēgibus aequīs melius est quam tyrannō servīre.

Question 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).

Answer 4

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

Question 5

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

Answer 5

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

Question 6

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

Answer 6

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

Question 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.

Answer 7

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

Question 8

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

Answer 8

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

Question 9

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

Answer 9

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

Question 10

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

Answer 10

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

Question 11

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

Answer 11

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

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

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

Answer 13

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

Question 14

13. Cūr nunc vult nocēre suīs duōbus amīcīs?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

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

Answer 15

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

Question 16

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

Answer 16

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

Question 17

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

Answer 17

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

Question 18

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

Answer 18

1. Nēmō liber est quī corporī servit.

Question 19

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

Answer 19

2. Imperium habēre vīs magnum? Imperā tibi!

Question 20

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

Answer 20

3. Bonīs nocet quisquis pepercit malīs.

Question 21

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

Answer 21

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

Question 22

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

Answer 22

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

Question 23

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

Answer 23

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

Question 24

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

Answer 24

6. Virtūti melius quam Fortūnae crēdāmus;

Question 25

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

Answer 25

6b. virtūs nōn nōvit calamitātī cēdere.

Question 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.”

Answer 26

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

Question 27

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

Answer 27

8. Omnēs arbitrātī sunt tē dēbēre mihi parcere.

Question 28

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

Answer 28

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

Question 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]

Answer 29

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

Question 30

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

Answer 30

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

Question 31

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

Answer 31

12. Alicui rogantī melius quam iubentī pārēmus.

Question 32

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

Answer 32

13. Vīvite fortiter fortiaque pectora rebus adversīs oppōnite.

Question 33

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

Answer 33

14. Nōn ignāra malī, miserīs succurrere disco.

Question 34

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

Answer 34

15. Ignōsce saepe alterī, numquam tibi.

Question 35

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

Answer 35

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

Question 36

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

Answer 36

16b. quaeram tē ut vīvat anima mea.

Question 37

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

Answer 37

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

Question 38

1. Nasica came to the poet Ennius.

Answer 38

1. Nāsīca ad poētam Ennium venit.

Question 39

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.

Answer 39

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.

Question 40

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.

Answer 40

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

Question 41

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

Answer 41

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

Question 42

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

Answer 42

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

Question 43

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

Answer 43

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

Question 44

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

Answer 44

7. “nōnne tū mihi ipsī nunc crēdis?”