PLINY Burdens of an Estate Owner - Translation

Question 1

C. PLINIUS POMPEIO FALCONI SUO S.

Answer 1

Caius Pliny sends greetings to his dear Pompeius Falco

Question 2

refugeram in Tuscos, ut omnia ad arbitrium meum facerem

Answer 2

I had escaped to Tuscany, in order to do everything to my liking

Question 3

at hoc ne in Tuscis quidem

Answer 3

but this proved impossible, even in Tuscany

Question 4

tam multis undique rusticorum libellis et tam querulis inquietor

Answer 4

I am harassed by so many petitions and so many grumbles from the country [folk] on all sides

Question 5

quos aliquanto magis invitus quam
meos lego

Answer 5

which I read considerably more reluctantly than my own

Question 6

nam et meos invitus

Answer 6

for I am also reluctant to read my own

Question 7

retracto enim actiunculas quasdam

Answer 7

for I am revising some of my shorter cases

Question 8

quod, post intercapedinem temporis, et frigidum et acerbum est

Answer 8

which, after such a long period of time, is both tedious and painful

Question 9

rationes quasi absente me negleguntur

Answer 9

my account-books are being neglected, as though I were not even here

Question 10

interdum tamen equum conscendo et patrem familiae hactenus ago

Answer 10

occasionally, however, I get on my horse and perform as the head of the community

Question 11

quod aliquam partem praediorum, sed pro gestatione percurro

Answer 11

to the extent that I gallop round one or other part of my estates – but [only] for a ride

Question 12

tu consuetudinem serva, nobisque sic rusticis urbana acta perscribe

Answer 12

do keep up your usual custom, and write in detail the news of the city to us who have become so countryfied