Sallust

Question 1

Ambitio multos mortalis falsos fieri subegit, aliud clausum in pectore, aliud in lingua promptum habere, amicitias inimicitiasque non ex re, sed ex commodo aestumare, magisque voltum quam ingenium bonum habere.

Answer 1

Ambition compelled/has driven many (of) mortals to become false, for one thing to have closed in their heart, another to have produced in their tongue (chiastic!!!), to appraise friendship and hostility not from circumstance, but from advantage, and to have a more pleasing face than a good temperament.

Question 2

subigo

Answer 2

to compel, drive under, subdue, urge on

Question 3

aliud…aliud

Answer 3

one…another

Question 4

inimicitias

Answer 4

hostility

Question 5

commodum, -i (n)

Answer 5

advantage

Question 6

aestumare

Answer 6

to appraise

Question 7

haec primo paulatim crescere, interdum vindicari;

post ubi contagio quasi pestilentia invasit, civitas inmutata, imperium ex iustissimo atque optumo crudele intolerandumque factum.

Answer 7

At first these things grew little by little, sometimes punished; (historic infinitive – it’s more pervasive, no neat ending to it)

Then, when the contagion invaded as if a plague, the state was changed, an authority from the most righteous and best was made cruel and intolerable.

Question 8

Sed nocte ea, quae proxima fuit ante diem conloquio decretum, Maurus adhibitis amicis ac statim inmutata voluntate remotis ceteris dicitur secum ipse vultum agitavisse, voltu corporis pariter atque animo varius;

Answer 8

But in that night, which was nearest before the day decided for the discussion (parley), the North African man, his friends having been summoned, and immediately, his decision having been altered, and the others having been removed, he is said to have agitated his features with himself, his appearance , likewise changing of his body and spirit;

Question 9

decretum

Answer 9

decided

Question 10

quae scilicet ita tacente ipso occulta pectoris patefecisse, tamen postremo Sullam adcersi iubet et ex illius sententia Numidae insidias tendit.

Answer 10

Of course so these things disclosed from the hidden silence of his heart, however finally he orders that Sulla be brought forth and from that very plan he set a trap for the Numidian.

Question 11

scilicet

Answer 11

of course

Question 12

ita

Answer 12

so

Question 13

postremo

Answer 13

finally