Chp 45: ibam forte via sacra Flashcards

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Ibam forte via sacra, sicut meus est mos,

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I was walking, by chance along the via sacra as is my custom

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nescio quid meditans nugarum, totus in illis:

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Thinking over some nonsense or other, wholly engrossed in these thoughts

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accurrit quidam notus mihi nomine tantum

arreptaque manu ‘quid agis, dulcissime rerum?’

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Some guy came up - known to me by name only -clutched my hand, and said “how are you, my dear fellow?”

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‘suaviter, ut nunc est,’ inquam ‘et cupio omnia quae vis.’

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“I’m doing pretty well, at the moment,” I said, “and I hope everything is as you wish.”

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cum adsectaretur, ‘numquid vis? occupo’

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When he kept on following, “Do you want anything else?’ i interrupt

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at ille ‘noris nos’ inquit; ‘docti sumus.’

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“I want you to get to know me” he said “I am a man of learning.”

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hic ego ‘pluris hoc’ inquam ‘mihi eris.’

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Here i said “for this i will esteem you more,’

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misere discedere quaerens ire modo ocius, interdum consistere, in aurem dicere nescio quid puero,

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Seeking miserably to leave, now going rather swiftly, sometimes stopping to whisper something into the boy’s ear

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cum sudor ad imos manaret talos

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While sweat flowed down to my ankles

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‘o te, Bolane, cerebri felicem’ aiebam tacitus, cum quidlibet ille garriret, vicos, urbem laudaret

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‘oh you Bolanus, lucky in your quick temper!’ i said quietly, while he kept chattering on about whatever he wished, praising the streets, the city

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ut illi nil respondebam, ‘misere cupis’ inquit ‘abire: iamdudum video;

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When i made no reply he said “you need, sadly to get away its been apparent for a while now;”

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sed nil agis: usque tenebo; persequar hinc quo nunc iter est tibi.’

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But you’re getting nowhere, i will hold onto you the whole way; i will pursue you wherever you’re going from here’

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‘nil opus est te circumagi: quendam volo visere non tibi notum;

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‘There is no need for you to be taken out of your way; I wish to visit someone not known to you.’

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trans Tiberim longe cubat is prope Caesaris hortos.’

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he resides far across the Tiber near Caesar’s gardens

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‘nil habeo quod agam et non sum piger: usque sequar te.’

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“I have nothing to do, and I’m not lazy: I will follow you all the way.”

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demitto auriculas, ut iniquae mentis asellus, cum gravius dorso subiit onus.

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My ears fall, like a bad tempered young donkey when he gets a very heavy load on his back