Chp 44: Egressum magna me

Question 1

Egressum magna me accepit Aricia Roma

hospitio modico

Answer 1

Aricia received me, who had left great Rome, with modest hospitality

Question 2

rhetor comes Heliodorus,

Graecorum longe doctissimus

Answer 2

teacher Heliodorus, my companion, by far the most learned of the Greeks

Question 3

inde Forum Appi differtum nautis

Answer 3

from this place we arrived at Forum Appi

crowded with boatmen

Question 4

iam nox inducere terris umbras et caelo diffundere signa parabat

Answer 4

Now night was preparing to bring shadows of the lands and to diffuse constellations in the sky

Question 5

dum aes exigitur, dum mula ligatur, tota abit hora

Answer 5

While the fare is collected, while the mule is being tied a whole hour passes

Question 6

mali culices ranaeque palustres avertunt somno

Answer 6

Annoying gnats and marsh frogs turn away sleep

Question 7

absentem antat amicam multa prolutus vappa nauta atque vistor certatim

Answer 7

while sailor and traveller soaked in flat wine sing in competition a lot about an absent girlfriend

Question 8

tandem fessus dormire viator incipit

Answer 8

At last the tired traveller falls asleep

Question 9

ac missae pastum retinacula mulae nauta piger saxo religat stertitque supinus.

Answer 9

The lazy sailor ties the traces of the mule, who is sent out to pasture, then snores lying on his back

Question 10

iamque dies aderat, nil cum procedere lintrem sentimus

Answer 10

And already the day was approaching, we feel the barge was proceeding nowhere

Question 11

donec cerebrosus prosilit unus ac mulae nautaeque caput lumbosque saligno fuste dolat:

Answer 11

Until a hot headed man alone jumps forward and with a willow stick inflicts blows on the head of the mule and backs of the boatmen

Question 12

quarta vix demum exponimur hora

Answer 12

At last at the fourth hour we disembark with difficulty

Question 13

Postera lux oritur multo gratissima

Answer 13

The next light rises much the most welcome indeed

Question 14

namque plotius et varius sinuessae virgiliusque occurrunt

Answer 14

for Plotius and varius and vergil met at sinuessa