Death 4

Question 1

Interea e vesuvio pluribus locis larissimae flammae altaque incendia relucebant, quorum fulgor et claritas tenebris noctis excitabatur.

Answer 1

Meanwhile from mount vesuvius in several places very broad sheets of flames and tall fires were blazing the glare and brightness of which was emphasised by the darkness of the night.

Question 2

Ille in remedium formidinis dictitabat ignes agrestium trepidatione relictos desertasque villas per solitudinem ardere.

Answer 2

He kept saying as a remedy for terror that the fires of the country folk had been abandoned in panic and deserted houses were burning through the abandoned areas.

Question 3

Tum se quieti dedit et quievit verissimo quidem somno

Answer 3

Then he gave himself to rest and indeed rested in a very true sleep

Question 4

Nam meatus animae, qui illi propter amplitudinem corporis gravior et sonantior erat, ab eis qui limini observabantur audiebatur.

Answer 4

For the passage of breath, which in him because of the stoutness of his body was heavier and noisier was heard by those who were stood near the doorway.

Question 5

Sed area ex qua cubiculum adibaturita iam cinere mixtisque pumicibus completa surrexerat, ut si longior in cubiculo mora esset, exitus negaretur.

Answer 5

But the courtyard from which the bedroom came had now so risen full of ash mixed with pumice stones that if there was a longer delay in the bedroom a way out would have been made impossible.

Question 6

Excitatus procebit, seque Pomponiano ceterisque qui pervigilaverant reddit.

Answer 6

Having been woken he advanced and went back to Pomponianus and the others who had stayed awake all night.