LI 9-13

Question 1

libertas proposita est

Answer 1

freedom has been set before my mind

Question 2

ad hoc praemium laboratur

Answer 2

there is effort required for this prize

Question 3

quae sit libertas, quaeris?

Answer 3

you ask what freedom is?

Question 4

nulli rei servire

Answer 4

to be a slave to no situation

Question 5

nulli necessitati, nullis casibus

Answer 5

to no necessity, to no event

Question 6

fortunam in aequum deducere

Answer 6

to put fortune on equal terms

Question 7

quo die…intellexero

Answer 7

on the day on which I understand

Question 8

illam…plus posse

Answer 8

that she is more capable than I

Question 9

nil poterit

Answer 9

she will be capable of nothing

Question 10

ego illam feram

Answer 10

will I endure her

Question 11

cum in manu mors sit?

Answer 11

when death is in my power?

Question 12

his cogitationibus intentum…oportet

Answer 12

it is proper for a man intent on these thoughts

Question 13

loca seria

Answer 13

an earnest…place

Question 14

sanctaque eligere

Answer 14

to choose…and upright

Question 15

amoenitas nimia

Answer 15

too much pleasantness

Question 16

effeminat animos

Answer 16

makes the mind weak

Question 17

nec dubie

Answer 17

and without a doubt

Question 18

aliquid…potest regio

Answer 18

the place has some power

Question 19

ad corrumpendum vigorem

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to corrupt one’s strength

Question 20

iumenta

Answer 20

beasts of burden

Question 21

quorum durata…ungula est

Answer 21

whose hooves have been hardened

Question 22

in aspero

Answer 22

on rough ground

Question 23

quamlibet viam…patiuntur

Answer 23

endure any type of road

Question 24

saginata cito subteruntur

Answer 24

those fattened…are swiftly ground down

Question 25

in molli palustrique pascuo

Answer 25

on soft and marshy pasture

Question 26

et fortior miles...venit

Answer 26

and a braver soldier comes

Question 27

ex confragoso

Answer 27

from a rough place

Question 28

segnis est

Answer 28

are lazy

Question 29

urbanus

Answer 29

the city dweller

Question 30

et verna

Answer 30

and house-slave

Question 31

nullum laborem recusant manus

Answer 31

hands reject no toil

Question 32

quae ad arma ab aratro transferuntur

Answer 32

that are turned to weapons from the plough

Question 33

ille unctus et nitidus

Answer 33

that oily and shiny man

Question 34

in primo deficit pulvere

Answer 34

fails at the first cloud of dust

Question 35

severior loci disciplina

Answer 35

training in a tougher place

Question 36

firmat ingenium

Answer 36

strengthens the character

Question 37

aptumque...reddit

Answer 37

and makes it suitable

Question 38

magnis conatibus

Answer 38

for great trials

Question 39

honestius Scipio...exulabat

Answer 39

it was more honourable for Scipio to live in exile

Question 40

Literni...quam Bais

Answer 40

at Liternum than at Baiae

Question 41

ruina eiusmodi

Answer 41

destruction of such a kind

Question 42

non est tam molliter collocanda

Answer 42

does not need such a soft location

Question 43

illi quoque

Answer 43

those men, too

Question 44

ad quos...fortuna populi Romani

Answer 44

to whom the fortune of the Roman people

Question 45

primos...publicas opes transtulit

Answer 45

first awarded public wealth

Question 46

exstruxerunt quidem villas in regione Baiana

Answer 46

did indeed build villas in the region of Baiae

Question 47

sed illas imposuerunt

Answer 47

but they established those

Question 48

summis iugis montium

Answer 48

on the highest ridges of mountains

Question 49

videbatur hoc magis militare

Answer 49

this seemed more fitting for a soldier

Question 50

speculari...subiecta

Answer 50

to observe the places lying...below

Question 51

late longeque

Answer 51

far and wide

Question 52

ex edito

Answer 52

from up high

Question 53

aspice quam positionem elegerint

Answer 53

look at the positions they chose

Question 54

quibus aedificia excitaverint locis

Answer 54

in what places they constructed their buildings

Question 55

et qualia

Answer 55

and what they were like

Question 56

scies non villas esse sed castra

Answer 56

you will see that they are not villas, but camps

Question 57

habitaturum tu putas umquam fuisse inimica (loca) M. Catonem

Answer 57

do you think that Marcus Cato would ever have lived in hostile places

Question 58

ut...dinumeraret

Answer 58

so that he might count

Question 59

praenavigantes adulteras

Answer 59

the adulterous women sailing behind

Question 60

et tot genera cumbarum

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and so many types of boats

Question 61

variis coloribus picta (agreeing with genera)

Answer 61

painted with various colours

Question 62

et fluvitantem toto lacu rosam

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and rose petals floating on the whole lake

Question 63

ut audiret

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or to hear

Question 64

canentium nocturna convicia

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the nocturnal clamours of those who sing?

Question 65

nonne ille manere...maluisset

Answer 65

surely he would have preferred to stay

Question 66

intra vallum...quod

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within his fortification, which

Question 67

ipse duxisset?

Answer 67

he himself had constructed

Question 68

in unam noctem manu sua

Answer 68

in a single night with his own hands?

Question 69

quidni mallet

Answer 69

wouldn't anyone prefer

Question 70

quisquis vir est

Answer 70

any real man, that is

Question 71

somnum suum...rumpi?

Answer 71

to have his sleep disturbed

Question 72

classico quam symphonia

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by a military trumpet rather than a chorus?

Question 73

sed satis diu cum Bais litigavimus

Answer 73

but I have been quarrelling with Baiae enough for a long time

Question 74

numquam satis cum vitiis

Answer 74

never enough with vices

Question 75

oro te, Lucili

Answer 75

I beg you, Lucilius

Question 76

quae...persequere

Answer 76

go after these

Question 77

sine modo

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without limit

Question 78

sine fine

Answer 78

without end

Question 79

nam illis quoque

Answer 79

for, for them also

Question 80

nec finis est nec modus

Answer 80

there is neither limit nor end

Question 81

proice quaecumque

Answer 81

cast aside whatever

Question 82

cor tuum laniant

Answer 82

tears at your heart

Question 83

quae si...nequirent

Answer 83

and if they are not able

Question 84

aliter extrahi

Answer 84

to be dragged away in another way

Question 85

cor ipsum

Answer 85

the heart itself

Question 86

cum illis revellendum erat

Answer 86

must be torn out with them

Question 87

voluptates...exturba

Answer 87

drive out pleasures

Question 88

praecipue

Answer 88

especially

Question 89

et invisissimas habe

Answer 89

and consider them most hateful

Question 90

latronum more...in hoc

Answer 90

in the custom of robbers

Question 91

quos 'φιλήτας' Aegyptii vocant

Answer 91

whom the Egyptians call 'φιλήται'/Philetae

Question 92

nos amplectuntur, ut strangulent

Answer 92

they embrace us, in order to strangle us

Question 93

Explain the use of 'φιλήτας'

Answer 93

It is a pun on φιλήτης = thief and φιλέω = I love or φιλήτης = lover Hence the thieves ‘love’ us to death