Extract 5

Question 1

Hoc tu quam ob rem non fecisti?

Answer 1

Why didn’t you do that?

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Question 2

Nefas

Answer 2

Sin

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Question 3

Ecquem scis

Answer 3

Do you know…? [other pirates caught but not beheaded]

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Question 4

Secure percussus

Answer 4

Beheaded

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Question 5

Unum cedo auctorem tui facti, unius profer exemplum

Answer 5

Please produce evidence for your actions, with one example

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Question 6

Quo?

Answer 6

Why? [the pirate captain was kept alive]

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Question 7

Per triumphum

Answer 7

For your triumph?

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Question 8

Credo

Answer 8

I suppose

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Question 9

Quem ante currum tuum duceres

Answer 9

So you could lead him in front of your chariot

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Question 10

Neque enim quicquam erat reliquam nisi uti classe populi Romani provinciaque lacerata

Answer 10

For there was nothing left for us to do except, since you lost an excellent Roman fleet and tore apart a province
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Question 11

Age porro

Answer 11

Very well then

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Question 12

Novo more

Answer 12

New idea

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Question 13

Omnium exemplo

Answer 13

As has always been done

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Question 14

Apud quos homines, quem ad modum est adservatus?

Answer 14

Amongst which people, and in what manner was he kept?

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Question 15

Lautumias

Answer 15

Stone quarries

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Question 16

Regum ac tyrranorum

Answer 16

Of kings and tyrants [had extended the quarries]

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Question 17

Nihil tam clausum ad exitum

Answer 17

Nothing so impossible to escape from

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Question 18

Nihil tam saeptum undique

Answer 18

Nothing so enclosed on all sides

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Question 19

Nihil tam tuum ad custodiam nec fieri nec cogitari potest

Answer 19

Nothing so securely guarded can be created or imagined

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