Latin prose

Question 1

1/ at Cn. Piso, quo celerius consilia inciperet, postquam Syriam ac legiones attigit, largitone et ambitu infimos militum iuvabat.

Answer 1

But meanwhile, in order to begin his plans more quickly, when he reached Syria and the legions, Gnaeus Piso helped the lowest of the soldiers by generosity and bribery.

Question 2

2/ cum veteres centuriones severos tribunos demovisset, locaque eorum clientibus suis attribuisset, deidam in castris, licentiam in urbibus, lascivientes per agros milites sinebat.

Answer 2

When he had got rid of the senior centurions and the strict tribunes, and had assigned their positions to his dependants, he began to allow idleness in the camp, hooligans in the cities and soldiers running riot through the fields.

Question 3

3/ nec plancina, uxor Pisonis, se gerebat ut feminam decebat, sed exercitio equitum intererat, et in Agrippinam, in Germanicum contumelias iacebat.

Answer 3

Nor did Plancina, Piso’s wife, conduct herself as was proper for a woman either, but attended the cavalry exercise and hurled insultd at Agrippina and at Germanicus.

Question 4

4/ nota haec Germanico, sed praeverti ad Armenios instantior

Answer 4

These events became known to Germanicus, but there was a more pressing concern to attend to the Armenians first.