Section 1D English to Latin

Question 1

There is a neighbor of Euclio.

Answer 1

est uīcīnus Eucliōnis.

Question 2

The name of the neighbor is Megadorus.

Answer 2

nōmen uīcīnī Megadōrus est.

Question 3

Megadorus has a sister.

Answer 3

Megadōrus sorōrem habet.

Question 4

The name of the sister is Eunomia.

Answer 4

nōmen sorōris Eunomia est.

Question 5

Therefore Megadorus is Eunomia’s brother, Eunomia is Megadorus’ sister.

Answer 5

Megadōrus igitur frāter Eunomiae est, Eunomia soror Megadōrī.

Question 6

Eunomia has a son.

Answer 6

Eunomia fīlium habet.

Question 7

The name of (her) son is Lyconides.

Answer 7

nōmen fīlī Lycōnidēs est.

Question 8

Lyconides is in love with Phaedra, Euclio’s daughter.

Answer 8

amat Lycōnidēs Phaedram, Eucliōnis fīliam.

Question 9

(And while) Lyconides is in love with Phaedra, Phaedra (is in love) with Lyconides.

Answer 9

Lycōnidēs Phaedram amat, Phaedra Lycōnidem.

Question 10

(Eunomia leads Megadorus out of the house onto the stage.)

Answer 10

(Eunomia Megadōrum ex aedibus in scaenam dūcit)

Question 11

MEGADORUS: “Best woman, give [to] me your hand.”

Answer 11

MEGADŌRVS: “optima fēmina, dā mihi manum tuam.”

Question 12

EUNOMIA: “What are you saying, my brother?

Answer 12

EVNOMIA: “quid dīcis, mī frāter?

Question 13

“Who is the best (woman)?

Answer 13

“quis est optima?

Question 14

“For I do not see a best woman.

Answer 14

“fēminam enim optimam nōn uideō.

Question 15

“Tell [to] me.”

Answer 15

“dīc mihi.”

Question 16

MEG. “You are the best, my sister.

Answer 16

MEG. “tū optima es, soror mea.

Question 17

“I regard you as [hold you to be] the best.”

Answer 17

“tē optimam habeō.”

Question 18

“I am the best?

Answer 18

EVN. “egone optima?

Question 19

“You yourself regard me as so excellent? [so much the best]”

Answer 19

“tūne mē ita optimam habēs?”

Question 20

“That’s what I say [I speak thus].”

Answer 20

MEG. “ita dīcō.”

Question 21

EUN. “As you yourself regard me as the best woman, so I myself regard you as the best brother.

Answer 21

EVN. “ut tū mē optimam habēs fēminam, ita ego tē frātrem habeō optimum.

Question 22

“Therefore pay attention to me.”

Answer 22

“dā igitur mihi operam.”

Question 23

MEG. “You have my attention.

Answer 23

MEG. “opera mea tua est.

Question 24

“Command (me), best sister, and advise (me); I am listening.

Answer 24

“iubē, soror optima, et monē: ego audiō.

Question 25

“What do you want?

Answer 25

“quid uīs?

Question 26

“Why are you leading me from the house?

Answer 26

“cūr mē ab aedibus dūcis?

Question 27

“Tell [to] me.”

Answer 27

“dīc mihi.”

Question 28

EUN. “My brother, now I’m telling [to] you.

Answer 28

EVN. “mī frāter, nunc tibi dīco.

Question 29

“You do not have a wife.”

Answer 29

uxōrem nōn habēs.”

Question 30

MEG. “(That) is so.

Answer 30

MEG. “ita est.

Question 31

“But what are you saying?”

Answer 31

“sed quid dīcis?”

Question 32

EUN. “If you don’t have a wife, you don’t have children.

Answer 32

EVN. “sī uxōrem nōn habēs, nōn habēs līberōs.

Question 33

“But wives always take care of (their) husbands and protect them, and beautiful children are the memorials of their husbands.

Answer 33

“sed uxōrēs uirōs semper cūrant seruantque et pulchrī līberī monumenta pulchra uirōrum sunt.

Question 34

“Why don’t you marry [lit: lead home] a wife at once?”

Answer 34

“cūr uxōrem domum nōn statim dūcis?”

Question 35

MEG. “I’m lost, I’m done for! Be silent, sister.

Answer 35

MEG. “periī, occidī! tacē, soror.

Question 36

“What are you saying? What do you want?

Answer 36

“quid dīcis? quid uīs?

Question 37

“I am a rich (man); wives instantly make a rich man a poor one.”

Answer 37

“ego dīues sum; uxōrēs uirum dīuitem pauperem statim faciunt.”

Question 38

EUN. “As you are an excellent brother, so I am an excellent woman, and your excellent sister.

Answer 38

EVN. “ut tū frāter es optimus, ita ego fēmina sum optima, sororque optima tua.

Question 39

“I bid you and advise you thus: marry a wife!”

Answer 39

“tē ita iubeō moneōque : dūc domum uxōrem!”

Question 40

MEG. “But whom do you have in mind?”

Answer 40

MEG. “sed quam in animō habēs?”

Question 41

EUN. “(I have in mind) a wife (who is) rich.”

Answer 41

EVN. “uxōrem dīuitem.”

Question 42

MEG. “But I am a rich enough, and I have enough [of] money and [of] gold.

Answer 42

MEG. “sed dīues sum satis, et satis pecūniae aurīque habeō.”

Question 43

“Furthermore rich wives at home ask (for) too much [of] money and [of] gold.

Answer 43

“praetereā uxōrēs dīuitēs domī nimis pecūniae aurīque rogant.

Question 44

“I do not love the shouts, the commands, the wagons adorned with ivory, the garments, (and) the purple of rich wives. But ....”

Answer 44

“nōn amō uxōrum dīuitum clāmōrēs, imperia, eburāta uehicula, pallās, purpuram. sed . . .”

Question 45

EUN. “Tell [to] me, please [lit.: I ask], what wife do you want?”

Answer 45

EVN. “dīc mihi, quaesō, quam uīs uxōrem?”

Question 46

MEG. (he thinks to [with] himself, then...) “The girl next door, Phaedra by name, Euclio’s daughter, is quite pretty [lit.: pretty enough] ...

Answer 46

MEG. (sēcum cōgitat, tum . . .) “puella uīcīna, Phaedra nōmine, fīlia Eucliōnis, satis pulchra est . . .”

Question 47

EUN. “Whom do do you say? Euclio’s girl?

Answer 47

EVN. “quam dīcis? puellamne Eucliōnis?

Question 48

“But she is as poor as she is pretty. [lit.: as, however, she is pretty, so she is poor]

Answer 48

“ut tamen pulchra est, ita est pauper.

Question 49

“For Phaedra’s father has no money.

Answer 49

“nam pater Phaedrae pecūniam habet nūllam.

Question 50

“Euclio, however, although he is an old man and does not [lit.: nor] have enough [of] money and [of] gold, is not a bad (man).”

Answer 50

“Eucliō tamen, quamquam senex est nec satis pecūniae aurīque habet, nōn malus est.”

Question 51

MEG. “If wives are rich and have a large dowry, after the marriage-rites the expenditure of wives is great:

Answer 51

MEG. “sī dīuitēs uxōrēs sunt dōtemque magnam habent, post nūptiās magnus est uxōrum sūmptus:

Question 52

“there are [lit.: there stand} the fuller, the embroiderer, the goldsmith, the woolworker, shopkeepers (and) makers of bridal-veils;

Answer 52

“stant fullō, phrygiō, aurifex, lānārius, caupōnēs flammāriī;

Question 53

“there are the makers of sleaves, there are retailers, linen-weavers, shoemakers;

Answer 53

“stant manuleāriī, stant propōlae, linteōnēs, calceolāriī;

Question 54

“sellers of breast-bands are standing there, at the same time sash-makers are standing there.

Answer 54

“strophiāriī adstant, adstant simul sōnāriī.

Question 55

“You give money, they go away.

Answer 55

“pecūniam dās, abeunt.

Question 56

“Then collectors of offerings are standing there in the house,

Answer 56

“tum adstant thȳlacistae in aedibus,

Question 57

“(and) weavers concerned with making ornamental hems, chest-makers.

Answer 57

“textōrēs limbulāriī, arculāriī.

Question 58

“You give money, they go away.

Answer 58

“pecūniam dās, abeunt.

Question 59

“The expense of wives is unendurable, if they have a large dowry.

Answer 59

“intolerābilis est sūmptus uxōrum, sī dōtem magnam habent.

Question 60

“But if a wife does not have a dowry, she is in the power of her husband.”

Answer 60

“sed sī uxor dōtem nōn habet, in potestāte uirī est.”

Question 61

EUN. “You speak rightly, brother.

Answer 61

EVN. “rēctē dīcis, frāter.

Question 62

“Why do you not approach the Euclio’s home?”

Answer 62

“cūr nōn domum Eucliōnis adīs?”

Question 63

MEG. “I approach (it).

Answer 63

MEG. “adeō.

Question 64

“Look, now I see Euclio.

Answer 64

“ecce, Eucliōnem nunc uideō.

Question 65

“He is returning from the forum.”

Answer 65

“ā forō redit.”

Question 66

EUN. “Goodby, my brother.”

Answer 66

EVN. “ualē, mī frāter.”

Question 67

(Megadorus’ sister leaves [from] the stage.)

Answer 67

(exit ē scaenā soror Megadōrī)

Question 68

MEG. “And goodbye to you, my sister.”

Answer 68

MEG. “et tū ualē, soror mea.”