LIII 1-4

Question 1

quid non potest mihi

Answer 1

what can I not

Question 2

persuaderi

Answer 2

be persuaded to do

Question 3

cui persuasum est

Answer 3

I who have been persuaded

Question 4

ut navigarem

Answer 4

to sail

Question 5

solvi mari languido

Answer 5

I set sail on a calm sea

Question 6

erat sine dubio caelum

Answer 6

the sky, without doubt, was

Question 7

grave sordidis nubibus

Answer 7

heavy with murky clouds

Question 8

quae fere…resolvuntur

Answer 8

which usually are dispelled

Question 9

aut in aquam aut in ventum

Answer 9

either into rain or into wind

Question 10

sed putavi tam pauca milia…surripi posse

Answer 10

but I thought that so few miles could be snatched away

Question 11

a Parthenope tua

Answer 11

from your own Parthenope (old name for part of Naples)

Question 12

usque Puteolos

Answer 12

right up to Puteoli

Question 13

quamvis dubio et impendente caelo

Answer 13

although the sky was doubtful and looming

Question 14

itaque quo celerius evaderem

Answer 14

and so to go out more quickly (lit. by which the more…)

Question 15

protinus…derexi

Answer 15

I immediately headed

Question 16

per altum ad Nesida

Answer 16

across the deep towards Nesis

Question 17

praecisurus omnes sinus

Answer 17

in order (lit. about) to cut across all the bays

Question 18

cum iam…processissem

Answer 18

when I had already gone

Question 19

eo…ut

Answer 19

so far that

Question 20

mea nihil interesset

Answer 20

that it made no difference to me

Question 21

utrum irem an redirem

Answer 21

whether to go on or to turn back

Question 22

aequalitas illa quae…periit

Answer 22

that calmness that…disappeared

Question 23

primum…me corruperat

Answer 23

had first enticed me

Question 24

nondum erat tempestas

Answer 24

there wasn’t yet a storm

Question 25

sed iam inclinatio maris

Answer 25

but there was now a change in the sea

Question 26

ac subinde

Answer 26

and, just after that

Question 27

crebrior fluctus

Answer 27

the waves became more frequent

Question 28

coepi gubernatorem rogare

Answer 28

I began to ask the helmsman

Question 29

ut me....exponeret

Answer 29

to alight me

Question 30

in aliquo litore

Answer 30

on some shore or another

Question 31

aiebat ille...esse

Answer 31

he said that the shores were

Question 32

aspera...et importuosa

Answer 32

rough and without a harbour

Question 33

nec...se...in tempestate timere

Answer 33

and that in a storm he did not fear

Question 34

quicquam aeque

Answer 34

anything as much

Question 35

quam terram

Answer 35

as the land

Question 36

autem...vexabar

Answer 36

however I was troubled

Question 37

peius...quam ut

Answer 37

too badly to

Question 38

mihi periculum succurreret

Answer 38

think about the danger

Question 39

nausea enim...segnis haec

Answer 39

for this lingering nausea

Question 40

me...torquebat

Answer 40

was tormenting me

Question 41

et sine exitu

Answer 41

and without relief

Question 42

quae bilem movet

Answer 42

the kind that moves the bile

Question 43

nec effundit

Answer 43

and does not come out

Question 44

institi itaque gubernatori

Answer 44

and so I urged the helmsman

Question 45

et illum...coegi

Answer 45

and compelled him

Question 46

vellet nollet

Answer 46

whether he wanted to or not

Question 47

peteret litus

Answer 47

to make for shore

Question 48

cuius ut viciniam attigimus

Answer 48

when we reached the vicinity of the shore

Question 49

non exspecto ut quicquam...fiat

Answer 49

I did not wait for anything to be done

Question 50

ex praeceptis Vergilii

Answer 50

in accordance with Virgil's maxims

Question 51

obvertunt pelago proras

Answer 51

they turn their prows to the sea

Question 52

ancora de prora iacitur

Answer 52

the anchor is thrown down from the prow

Question 53

memor artificii mei

Answer 53

mindful of my profession

Question 54

vetus frigidae cultor

Answer 54

an old supporter of cold baths

Question 55

mitto me in mare...gausapatus

Answer 55

I got down into the sea, dressed in a cloak

Question 56

quomodo psycholutam decet

Answer 56

how it befits a cold-water bather

Question 57

quae putas me passum

Answer 57

what do you think I suffered

Question 58

dum per aspera erepo

Answer 58

while I was crawling over rough rocks

Question 59

dum viam quaero

Answer 59

while I was looking for a path

Question 60

dum facio

Answer 60

while I was making one

Question 61

intellexi...nautis terram timeri

Answer 61

I understood that land is...feared by the sailors

Question 62

non inmerito

Answer 62

not undeservedly

Question 63

incredibilia sunt quae tulerim

Answer 63

incredible were the things I bore

Question 64

cum me ferre non possem

Answer 64

since I was unable to bear myself

Question 65

illud scito

Answer 65

know this

Question 66

Ulixem non fuisse

Answer 66

that Ulysses had not been

Question 67

tam irato mari natum

Answer 67

destined for such an angry sea

Question 68

ut ubique naufragia faceret

Answer 68

that he got shipwrecked everywhere

Question 69

nauseator erat

Answer 69

he suffered from sea-sickness

Question 70

et ego quocumque navigare debuero

Answer 70

and wherever I have to sail

Question 71

vicinissimo anno perveniam

Answer 71

I will get there in the twentieth year