Cincinnatus- LIVY

Question 1

vis Sabinorum ingens

Answer 1

A huge force of Sabines

Question 2

infesta populatione

Answer 2

with terrible devastation

Question 3

prope ad moenia urbis venit.

Answer 3

came near to the walls of the city.

Question 4

foedati agri,

Answer 4

The fields [were] laid waste,

Question 5

terror iniectus urbi est.

Answer 5

the city was struck with terror.

Question 6

tanta trepidatio fuit

Answer 6

There was as great a panic

Question 7

quanta si urbem, non castra hostes obsiderent.

Answer 7

as if the enemy were besieging the city, not the camp.

Question 8

itaque civibus dictatorem dici placuit

Answer 8

Therefore, the citizens decided that a dictator should be appointed

Question 9

qui rem perculsam restitueret,

Answer 9

to restore the shattered state,

Question 10

et Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus consensu omnium dicitur.

Answer 10

and Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was chosen by the consent of all.

Question 11

spes unica imperii populi Romani,

Answer 11

The sole hope of the power of the Roman people,

Question 12

Quinctius trans Tiberim

Answer 12

Quinctius, across the Tiber,

Question 13

contra eum ipsum locum ubi nunc navalia sunt

Answer 13

opposite the very place where the docks now are,

Question 14

quattuor iugerum colebat agrum,

Answer 14

cultivated a farm of four acres,

Question 15

quae prata Quinctia vocantur.

Answer 15

which are now called the Quinctian meadows.

Question 16

ibi ab legatis

Answer 16

There, by the envoys

Question 17

seu fossam fodiens palae innixus,

Answer 17

whether leaning on a stake while digging a ditch,

Question 18

seu cum araret,

Answer 18

or while ploughing,

Question 19

operi certe (id quod constat) agresti intentus

Answer 19

certainly engrossed in some farming task (as is generally accepted),

Question 20

salute data in vicem redditaque

Answer 20

after greetings had been given in turn and responded to,

Question 21

rogatus est ut togatus mandata senatus audiret.

Answer 21

he was asked to listen to the commands of the senate, once he was dressed in his toga.

Question 22

admiratus rogitansque ‘satin salve?’

Answer 22

Bewildered, and asking continually, “Is everything quite all right?”

Question 23

uxorem togam propere e tugurio proferre iubet.

Answer 23

he ordered his wife to bring his toga quickly from their cottage.

Question 24

qua simul absterso pulvere ac sudore velatus processit,

Answer 24

As soon as he stepped forward, wiping off the dust and sweat, dressed in it,

Question 25

dictatorem eum legati gratulantes consalutant,

Answer 25

the envoys, congratulating him, hailed him as dictator,

Question 26

in urbem vocant;

Answer 26

called him into the city,

Question 27

qui terror sit in exercitu exponunt.

Answer 27

and explained what terror there was in the army.