Mark T. Garbanzo

Question 1

Ipse inflammatus scelere et furore in forum venit; ardebant oculi, toto ex ore crudelitas eminebat.

Answer 1

That man, ignited with criminal insanity, came into the forum; his eyes burned, from his whole face cruelty stood out.

Question 2

What is scelere et furore (criminal insanity) an example of?

Answer 2

hendiadys

Question 3

Exspectabant omnes, quo tandem progressurus aut quidnam acturus esset, cum repente hominem proripi atque in foro medio nudari ac deligari et virgas expediri iubet.

Answer 3

All were awaiting, where at last he would go or what he would do, when suddenly he orders that a man be dragged forth and made bare in the middle of the forum and tied up and rods be prepared.

Question 4

quidnam

Answer 4

what

Question 5

repente

Answer 5

suddenly

Question 6

proripi

Answer 6

to be dragged forth

Question 7

deligari

Answer 7

to be tied up

Question 8

expediri

Answer 8

to be prepared

Question 9

Clamabat ille miser se civem esse Romanum, municipem Consanum;

Answer 9

That poor man was crying out that he was a Roman citizen of the municipium Consanus;

Question 10

(clamabat) meruisse cum L. Raecio, spendidissimo equite Romano, qui Panhormi negotiaretur, ex quo haec Verres scire posset.

Answer 10

(he was crying out) that he served with Lucius Raecius, a most noble Roman equestrian, who was doing business in Panormus, and from whom Verres would be able to know/verify this.

Question 11

meruisse

Answer 11

to have served (from mereo)

Question 12

negotiaretur

Answer 12

he was doing business (from negotior)

Question 13

Tum iste; se comperisse eum speculandi causa in Siciliam a ducibus fugitivorum esse missum;

Answer 13

Then that man (Verres); (said that) he discovered that the man was sent in order to spy in Sicily by the leaders of the fugitives;

Question 14

comperisse

Answer 14

to have discovered

Question 15

speculandi causa

Answer 15

genitive gerund with causa meaning “in order to spy)

Question 16

cuius rei neque index neque vestigium aliquod neque suspicio cuiquam esset ulla;

deinde iubet undique hominem vehementissime verberari.

Answer 16

for which things there was not a witness nor any trace nor suspicion of anyone;

Then he orders that the man be beaten most violently from all sides.

Question 17

index

Answer 17

witness

Question 18

undique

Answer 18

from all sides

Question 19

verberari

Answer 19

to be beaten

Question 20

caedebatur virgis in medio foro Messanae civis Romanus, iudices, cum interea nullus gemitus, nulla vox alia illius miseri inter dolorem strepitumque plagarum audiebatur, nisi haec:

Answer 20

A Roman citizen was being beaten with rods in the middle of the forum of Messana, jurors, when meanwhile no groan, no other word of that wretched man was being heard between the pain and the racket of the blows except this:

Question 21

strepitumque plagarum

Answer 21

and the racket/sound of the blows

Question 22

‘civis Romanus sum!

hac se commemoratione civitatis omnia verbera depulsurum cruciatumque a corpore deiecturum arbitrabatur;

Answer 22

I am a Roman Citizen

With this reminder of (his) citizenship he was thinking that he would push away all the rods and drive away the torture from his body;

Question 23

commemoratio, -onis (f)

Answer 23

a reminding, a reminder

Question 24

verber, verberis (n)

Answer 24

lash, whip, rod

Question 25

“... Quocirca si reditum in hunc locum desperaveris, in quo omnia sunt magnis et praestantibus viris, quanti tandem est ista hominum gloria, quae pertinere vix ad unus anni partem exiguam potest?

Answer 25

... For which reason if you should despair to return to this place, in which great and outstanding men have all things, then how much is this glory of men worth, which is barely able to reach an inadequate part for one year?

Question 26

Igitur alte spectare si voles atque hanc sedem et aeternam domum contueri, neque te sermonibus vulgi dedideris nec in praemiis humanis spem posueris rerum tuarum;

Answer 26

Therefore if you wish to look upwards (high) and to gaze upon this place and everlasting home, and that you not give yourself to the speeches of the common people nor place hope of your own affairs in human rewards;

Question 27

Quocirca

Answer 27

for which reason, wherefore

Question 28

desperaveris (case and why)

Answer 28

future perfect in a future more vivid condition

Question 29

quanti

Answer 29

how much (genitive of value)

Question 30

pertinere

Answer 30

to stretch out, reach

Question 31

exiguam

Answer 31

paltry, inadequate

Question 32

voles (case and why)

Answer 32

future indicative for a future more vivid condition

Question 33

contueri

Answer 33

to see, look upon

Question 34

suis te oportet inlecebris ipsa virtus trahat ad verum decus;

Answer 34

It is proper that excellence itself leads you with its own allurements to true honor;

Question 35

oportet

Answer 35

it is proper

Question 36

quid de te alii loquantur, ipsi videant, sed loquentur tamen.

Answer 36

That which other people say about you, leave that to them, but nevertheless they will speak.

Question 37

ipsi videant

Answer 37

idiomatic (leave that to them)

Question 38

Sermo autem omnis ille et angustiis cingitur his regionum, quas vides, nec umquam de ullo perennis fuit et obruitur hominum interitu et oblivione posteritatis extinguitur.”

Answer 38

However, all that talk is also surrounded by the narrow confines of this place, which you see, and it has not ever been perpetual about anyone and it is overwhelmed by the death of men and it is extinguished by forgetfulness of posterity.”

Question 39

angustiis

Answer 39

narrow confines

Question 40

perennis

Answer 40

perpetual

Question 41

obruitur

Answer 41

it is concealed

Question 42

interitu

Answer 42

by the ruin

Question 43

oblivione posteritatis

Answer 43

by the forgetfulness of posterity

Question 44

extinguitur

Answer 44

it is extinguished