Germanicus and Piso, Tacitus lines 95-105

Question 1

absolutionis, sociam se cuiuscumque fortunae futuram esse

Answer 1

acquittal, promised that she would be an ally of whatever fortune (he would have)

Question 2

et, si necesse esset, comitem exitii promittebat:

Answer 2

and, if it was necessary, a companion in his death:

Question 3

sed paulatim segregari a marito coepit. quod postquam

Answer 3

but gradually she began to be separated from her husband. After

Question 4

Piso sibi exitiabile esse intellexit, dubitavit an causam

Answer 4

Piso understood that this was fatal for him, he hesitated whether he should

Question 5

diceret amplius

Answer 5

plead his case any further

Question 6

itaque, tamquam defensionem in posterum diem

Answer 6

Therefore, as if he was thinking of his defense for the following day

Question 7

meditaretur, pauca scribit obsignatque et liberto tradit

Answer 7

he wrote a few things and sealed them and handed them over to a freedman

Question 8

tum solita curando corpori exsequitur.

Answer 8

then he followed/attended to his usual tasks for looking after his body.

Question 9

deinde multam post noctem, egressa cubiculo uxore

Answer 9

Then after much/late at night, with his wife having left the bedroom,

Question 10

claudi ianuam iussit et prima luce perfosso iugulo

Answer 10

he ordered the door to be closed; and at dawn he was found with his throat

Question 11

iacente humi gladio, repertus est.

Answer 11

pierced through, (and) with a sword lying on the ground.