Cicero: A Useful Lesson Flashcards
non vereor ne mihi aliquid, iudices, videar adrogare si de quaestura mea dixero.
I do not fear, judges, that I may seem to arrogate for myself to some extent if I speak about my quaestorship.
More flowing translation:
I do not fear, members of the jury, that I will seem too boastful if I speak about my quaestorship.
Apostrophe is used here as a rhetorical device. Addresses jurors directly to get and keep their interest.
nec vereor ne quis audeat dicere ullius in Sicilia quaesturam aut grationem aut clariorem fuisse.
Neither do I fear that anyone would dare to say that the quaestorship of anyone (else) in Sicily had been either more popular or more distinguished.
vere mehercule hoc dicam: sic tum existimabam, nihil homines aliud Romae nisi de quaetura mea loqui.
Truly. by Hercules, I will say this: At that time I was thinking that the people of Rome were speaking about nothing other than my quaestorship.
frumenti in summa caritate maximum numerum miseram; negotiatoribus comis, mercatoribus iustus, mancipibus liberalis, sociis abstinens, amnibus eram visus in omni officio diligentissimus: excogitati quidam erant a Siculis honores in me inauditi.
I had sent a very great amount of corn at its highest price (when it was most expensive); (I was) courteous to bankers, fair to merchants, generous to tax collectors, abstaining from (enriching myself from) our allies, I was seen by all as the most diligent in all my official duties: certain unheard of honours had been thought up for me by the Silicians.
itaque hac spe decedebamus ut mihi populum Romanum ultro omnia delaturum putarem.
And so I was departing with this hope, thinking that the Roman people would spontaneously grant everything (unheard of honours) to me.
vereor
to fear
iudices
members of the jury, judges
videor, visus sum
to seem
sed tamen
and yet, yet
quisque
each one
quis
someone, anyone
audeo
to dare
vere
truly, frankly
tum
then, at that time
alius, alia, alius
other
loquor
to speak
iustus, iusta, iustum
just, fair
dilligens, dilligentis
dilligent, efficient
excogito
to think out, devise
inauditus, inaudita, inauditum
unheard of
defero, deferre, detuli, delatum
to grant
puto
to think
at
but
atque
and
verus, vera, verum
true
plurimi, plurimae, plurima
very many
soleo, solere, solentus sum (semi-deponent)
to be accustomed to
quaero, quaesivi (ex. + ablative)
to ask
exeo, -ire, -ivi
to go
num
whether
respondeo, respondere, respond, responsum
to reply
inquam
I say
nescio (4)
to be unaware, to not know
quid multa
to cut a long story short
plus
more
cogito, cogitare, cogitavi, cogitatum
to think about
cotidie
daily, every day
to sleep
somnus, somni
oppidum
town
iudices, iudicum
members of the jury
fugio, fugere, fugivi, fugitum
to flee
non solum…verum etiam…
not only…but also…
verum
but
quondam
long ago, in past times
civitas, civitatis
state, community
deleo, delere, delevi, deletum
to destroy
apud (+accusative)
among
perficio, perficere, perfeci, perfectum
to finish
tranferro, transferre, transtuli, translatum
to carry across, to transfer, to move
tantum
only, merely