Passage 1

Question 1

quod ad me scribis de sorore tua,

Answer 1

That which you write to me about your sister,

Question 2

, testis erit tibi ipsa quantae mihi curae fuerit ut Quinti fratris animus in eam esse is qui esse deberet.

Answer 2

, she herself will be a witness to you of how much care I have taken that my brother, Quintus’ mind be on her as much as it should be.

Question 3

. quem cum esse offensiorem arbitrarer, eas litteras ad eum misi

Answer 3

Since I was thinking that he was rather rude I sent those letters to him,

Question 4

quibus et placarem ut fratrem et monerem ut minorem et obiurgarem ut errantem.

Answer 4

in which I appease him as a brother, advising him as a junior and rebuking him as one mistaken.

Question 5

. itaque ex iis quae saepe ab eo ad me scripta sunt confido ita esse omnia ut et oporteat et velimus.

Answer 5

And so out of these letters which subsequently have been written to me by him often, I trust that everything thus is both as it should be and as we wish.