LIII 9-12

Question 1

si aeger esses

Answer 1

if you were sick

Question 2

curam intermisisses

Answer 2

you would have stopped worrying

Question 3

rei familiaris

Answer 3

about domestic matters

Question 4

et forensia…negotia

Answer 4

and your public business

Question 5

tibi…excidissent

Answer 5

would have slipped your mind

Question 6

nec quemquam…putares

Answer 6

and you would think no-one

Question 7

tanti

Answer 7

of such importance

Question 8

cui advocatus…descenderes

Answer 8

that you would deign to work as an advocate for them

Question 9

in remissione

Answer 9

in your convalescence

Question 10

toto animo id ageres

Answer 10

you would commit to this completely

Question 11

ut…morbo liberareris

Answer 11

in order to be freed from sickness

Question 12

quam primum

Answer 12

at the first opportunity

Question 13

quid ergo?

Answer 13

so what, then?

Question 14

non et nunc idem facies?

Answer 14

will you not even now do the same?

Question 15

omnia impedimenta dimitte

Answer 15

dismiss all hindrances

Question 16

et vaca

Answer 16

and be free to dedicate yourself

Question 17

bonae menti

Answer 17

to achieving a sound mind

Question 18

nemo occupatus

Answer 18

no busy person

Question 19

ad illam pervenit

Answer 19

reaches this

Question 20

exercet philosophia regnum suum

Answer 20

philosophy runs her own kingdom

Question 21

dat tempus, non accipit

Answer 21

she gives out time, doesn’t receive it

Question 22

non est res subsiciva

Answer 22

she is not part-time

Question 23

ordinaria est

Answer 23

she’s part of daily life

Question 24

domina est

Answer 24

she is the mistress

Question 25

adest et iubet

Answer 25

she is present and in control

Question 26

Alexander cuidam civitati…promittenti

Answer 26

Alexander, to a certain city promising him

Question 27

partem agrorum

Answer 27

part of their fields

Question 28

et dimidium rerum omnium

Answer 28

and half of everything

Question 29

inquit…in Asiam veni

Answer 29

said, ‘I came into Asia

Question 30

eo…proposito

Answer 30

with the intention

Question 31

ut non…acciperem

Answer 31

not to receive

Question 32

id…quod dedissetis

Answer 32

what you might give

Question 33

sed ut…haberetis

Answer 33

but that you keep

Question 34

id…quod reliquissem

Answer 34

what I have left behind.’

Question 35

idem philosophia rebus omnibus

Answer 35

philosophy says the same thing in all situations

Question 36

non sum…acceptura

Answer 36

‘I am not going to accept

Question 37

hoc tempus…quod vobis superfuerit

Answer 37

the time that you have left over

Question 38

sed…vos habebitis

Answer 38

but you will have

Question 39

id…quod ipsa reiecero

Answer 39

that which I myself have rejected’

Question 40

totam huc converte mentem

Answer 40

turn your whole mind to her

Question 41

huic asside

Answer 41

be at her side

Question 42

hanc cole

Answer 42

worship her

Question 43

ingens intervallum…fiet

Answer 43

a huge gap will develop

Question 44

inter te et ceteros

Answer 44

between you and everyone else

Question 45

omnes mortales multo antecedes

Answer 45

you will be far ahead of all mortals

Question 46

non multo te di antecedent

Answer 46

the gods will not be far ahead of you

Question 47

quaeris quid…interfuturum sit?

Answer 47

you ask what will be the difference

Question 48

inter te et illos

Answer 48

between you and them?

Question 49

diutius erunt

Answer 49

they will exist for longer

Question 50

at mehercules

Answer 50

but, my goodness

Question 51

magni artificis est

Answer 51

it is indicative of a skilled craftsman

Question 52

clusisse totum

Answer 52

to have enclosed the whole

Question 53

in exiguo

Answer 53

into a short space of time

Question 54

sapienti sua…aetas patet

Answer 54

a wise man’s own life lies open for him

Question 55

tantum…quantum

Answer 55

as much as

Question 56

deo omnis (aetas patet)

Answer 56

all time lies open for a god

Question 57

est aliquid quo

Answer 57

there is something in which

Question 58

sapiens antecedat deum

Answer 58

a wise man may be ahead of a god

Question 59

ille…non timet

Answer 59

a god doesn’t fear death

Question 60

naturae beneficio

Answer 60

thanks to his nature

Question 61

(beneficio…) suo sapiens

Answer 61

the wise man thanks to himself

Question 62

ecce res magna

Answer 62

behold this wonderful situation

Question 63

habere inbecillitatem hominis

Answer 63

to have the weakness of a man

Question 64

securitatem dei

Answer 64

the composure of a god

Question 65

philosophiae vis

Answer 65

the power of philosophy

Question 66

ad…retundendam

Answer 66

to blunt

Question 67

omnem fortuitam vim

Answer 67

all the power of fortune

Question 68

incredibilis…est

Answer 68

is incredible

Question 69

nullum telum in corpore eius sedet

Answer 69

no weapons stick in her body

Question 70

munita est, solida

Answer 70

she has solid defences

Question 71

quaedam defatigat…tela

Answer 71

she breaks the force of certain weapons

Question 72

et…eludit

Answer 72

and parries them

Question 73

velut levia

Answer 73

as if they were weightless

Question 74

laxo sinu

Answer 74

with the loose folds of her garments

Question 75

quaedam discutit

Answer 75

she dashes certain weapons to pieces

Question 76

et in…usque…respuit

Answer 76

and spits all over

Question 77

eum…qui miserat

Answer 77

the person who had sent them

Question 78

vale

Answer 78

farewell