Chunk 5

Question 1

fit clamor et admiratio populi 30

tantam esse in homine impudentiam atque audaciam ut aut aliis

causam calamitatis attribueret quae omnis propter avaritiam ipsius

accidisset, aut, cum ipse praedonum socius arbitraretur, aliis

proditionis crimen inferret; deinde hoc quinto decimo die crimen

esse natum postquam classis esset amissa. 35

Answer 1

Shouting and amazing from the people arose that there was such great shamelessness and effrontery in the fellow that he should attribute to others the cause of the disaster which had happened entirely because of his own greed, or, since he himself was considered the ally of the pirates, he should bring a charge of treason against others; furthermore that this charge originated on the fifteenth day after the fleet had been lost