Ovid 4

Question 1

primus sollicitos fecisti, Romule, ludos,

Answer 1

Romulus, you first made troubled games,

Question 2

cum iuvit viduos rapta Sabinia viros.

Answer 2

when a Sabine woman, seized, delighted single men.

Question 3

tunc neque marmoreo pendebant vela theatre,

Answer 3

Then neither did awnings hang on a theatre of marble,

Question 4

nec fuerant liquid pulpit rubra croco;

Answer 4

nor had the stages been made red with liquid saffron;

Question 5

illic quas tolerant nemorosa Palatia, frondes

Answer 5

there the foliage which the well-wooded Palatia had brought

Question 6

simpliciter positae, scena sine arte fuit;

Answer 6

placed simply, the stage was without art.

Question 7

in gradibus sedit populous de caespite factis,

Answer 7

the people sat on the steps made of turf,

Question 8

qualibet hirsutas fronde tegente comas.

Answer 8

with leaves covering their rough hair everywhere.

Question 9

respiciunt, oculisque notant sibi quisque puellam

quam velit, et tacito pectore multa movent.

Answer 9

They look back and mark out with their eyes the girl which each one wants for himself and they turn over many thoughts in a silent heart.

Question 10

dumque, rudem parebente modum tibicine Tusco,

Answer 10

And while, as a Tuscian piper provides a rough rhythm,

Question 11

ludius aequatam ter pede pulsat humum,

Answer 11

a pantomimist beats the levelled ground three times with his foot,

Question 12

in medio plausu (plausus tunc arte carebant)

Answer 12

in the middle of the applause (then applause was lacking skill)

Question 13

rex populo praedae signa petita dedit.

Answer 13

the king gave the people sought for signs of plunder.