Chapter 8a. Latin to English

Question 1

1. Tempora nostra nunc sunt mala; vitia nostra, magna.

Answer 1

1. Our times now are evil; our faults (are) great.

Question 2

2a. Quārē soror mea uxōrī tuae litterās scrībit?

Answer 2

2a. Why is my sister writing a letter to your [sg.] wife?

Question 3

2b. Quārē soror mea uxōrī tuae litterās scrībet?

Answer 3

2b. Why will by sister write a letter to your [sg.] wife?

Question 4

2c. Quārē soror mea uxōrī tuae litterās scrībēbat?

Answer 4

2c. Why was my sister writing a letter to your [sg.] wife?

Question 5

3a. Tyrannus populum stultum ē terrā vestrā dūcet.

Answer 5

3a. The autocrat will lead (his) stupid people out of your [pl.] land.

Question 6

3b. Tyrannus populum stultum ē terrā vestrā dūcit.

Answer 6

3b. The autocrat is leading (his) stupid people out of your [pl.] land.

Question 7

3c. Tyrannus populum stultum ē terrā vestrā dūcēbat.

Answer 7

3c. The autocrat was leading (his) stupid people out of your [pl.] land.

Question 8

4. Ubi satis ratōnis animōrumque in hominibus erit?

Answer 8

4. Where [or “when”] will there be enough (of) reason and spirit [lit. plural] in humans?

Question 9

5. Cōpia vērae virtūtis multās culpās superāre poterat.

Answer 9

5. An abundance of true virture was able to overcome many faults.

Question 10

6. In līberā cīvitāte adulēscentiam agēbāmus.

Answer 10

6. We spent our youth [= young manhood] in a free city.

Question 11

7. Regem malum tolerāre numquam dēbēmus.

Answer 11

7. We should never tolerate an evil king.

Question 12

8. Post parvam moram multa verba dē īnsidiīs scrīptōrum stultōrum scrībēmus.

Answer 12

8. After a small delay we will write many words about the plots of stupid writers.

Question 13

9. The body will remain there under the ground.

Answer 13

9. Corpus ibi manēbit sub terrā.

Question 14

10a. Write [sg.] many (things) in your [sg.] books about the glory of our state.

Answer 14

10a. Scrībe multa in librīs tuīs dē glōriā cīvitātis nostrae.

Question 15

10b. Write [pl.] many (things) in your [pl.] books about the glory of our state.

Answer 15

10b. Scrībite multa in librīs vestrīs dē glōriā cīvitātis nostrae.

Question 16

11. Does reason always lead your [pl.] queen to virtue?

Answer 16

11. Ratiōne semper dūcit regīnam vestram ad virtūtem?

Question 17

12. We shall always see many Greek names there.

Answer 17

12. Sember vidēbimus ibi multa nōmina Graeca.

Question 18

13. Frāter meus vītam in ōtiō semper aget.

Answer 18

13. My brother will lead his life in leisure.

Question 19

14a. Age, age! Iuvā mē!

Answer 19

14a. Come on! [sg.] Come on! Help [sg.] me!

Question 20

14b. Dūc mē ad secundum fīlium meum.

Answer 20

14b. Lead [sg.] me to my second son.

Question 21

15. Ō amīcī, lībertātem perdimus.

Answer 21

15. O friends, we are losing freedom.

Question 22

16. Nova perīcula populō Romānō expōnam sine morā.

Answer 22

16. I will explain the new dangers to the Roman people without delay.

Question 23

17. Numquam perīculum sine perīculō vincēmus.

Answer 23

17. We will never defeat danger without danger.

Question 24

18. Ex meīs errōribus hominibus rēctum iter dēmōnstrāre possum.

Answer 24

18. On account of [use ex] my errors I am able to show to people a straight road.

Question 25

19. Catullus Marcō Tulliō Cicerōnī magnās grātiās agit.

Answer 25

19. Catullus gives many [lit. “great”] thanks to Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Question 26

20. Eximia fōrma virginis oculōs hominum convertit.

Answer 26

20. The extraordinary looks of the maiden attracts the eyes of people.

Question 27

21a. Agamemnon magnās cōpiās ē terrā Graecā ad Trōiam dūcet,

Answer 27

21. Agamemnon will lead many troops from the land (of) Greece to Troy.

Question 28

21b. ubi multōs virōs necābit.

Answer 28

21b. where he will murder many men.

Question 29

22. Amor laudis hominēs trahit.

Answer 29

22. Love of praise draws people.

Question 30

23. Auctōrēs pācis Caesar cōnservābit.

Answer 30

23. Caesar will preserve the authors of peace.

Question 31

24. Inter multās cūrās labōrēsque carmina scrībere nōn possum.

Answer 31

24. In the midst of many cares and toils I am not able to write poems [lit. “songs”].

Question 32

25a. Dum in magnā urbe dēclāmās, mī amīce,

Answer 32

25a. While you are declaiming in the great city, my friend [sg.],

Question 33

25b. scrīptōrem Trōiānī bellī in ōtiō relegō.

Answer 33

25b. I am re-reading the author of the Trojan war at (my) leisure.

Question 34

26. Nōn vītae, sed scholae, discimus.

Answer 34

26. We learn not for life, but for leisure.

Question 35

27. Hominēs, dum docent, discunt.

Answer 35

27. People, while they teach, learn.

Question 36

28. Ratiō mē dūcet, nōn fortūna.

Answer 36

28. Reason will lead me, not fortune.

Question 37

29. Cīvitās bellum sine causā aut propter īram gerere nōn debet.

Answer 37

29. A city should not wage war without a reason or on account of anger.

Question 38

30. Sī fortūnās et agrōs vītāsque populī nostrī sine bellō dēfendere poterimus,

Answer 38

30. If we can [future] defend the fortunes and the fields and [use -que] the lives of our people without war,

Question 39

31. tum pācem cōnservāre dēbēbimus;

Answer 39

31. then we will be able to preserve peace;

Question 40

32. sī, autem, nōn poterimus esse salvī ...

Answer 40

32. if, however, we cannot [future] be secure ...

Question 41

33. et servāre pātriam lībertātemque nostram sine bellō,

Answer 41

33. and (cannot) defend (our) country and our freedom without war,

Question 42

34. bellum erit necessarium.

Answer 42

34. war will be necessary.

Question 43

35. Semper dēbēmus dēmōnstrāre, tamen, magnum officium in bellō,

Answer 43

35. We should always display, however, great (attention to) duty in war,

Question 44

36. et magnam clēmentiam post victōriam.

Answer 44

36. and (we should always display) great clemency after victory.