Section 1D Latin to English

Question 1

est uīcīnus Eucliōnis.

Answer 1

There is a neighbor of Euclio.

Question 2

nōmen uīcīnī Megadōrus est.

Answer 2

The name of the neighbor is Megadorus.

Question 3

Megadōrus sorōrem habet.

Answer 3

Megadorus has a sister.

Question 4

nōmen sorōris Eunomia est.

Answer 4

The name of the sister is Eunomia.

Question 5

Megadōrus igitur frāter Eunomiae est, Eunomia soror Megadōrī.

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Eunomia fīlium habet.

Answer 6

Eunomia has a son.

Question 7

nōmen fīlī Lycōnidēs est.

Answer 7

The name of (her) son is Lyconides.

Question 8

amat Lycōnidēs Phaedram, Eucliōnis fīliam.

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Lycōnidēs Phaedram amat, Phaedra Lycōnidem.

Answer 9

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

Question 10

(Eunomia Megadōrum ex aedibus in scaenam dūcit)

Answer 10

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

Question 11

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

Answer 11

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

Question 12

EVNOMIA: “quid dīcis, mī frāter?

Answer 12

EUNOMIA: “What are you saying, my brother?

Question 13

“quis est optima?

Answer 13

“Who is the best (woman)?

Question 14

“fēminam enim optimam nōn uideō.

Answer 14

“For I do not see a best woman.

Question 15

“dīc mihi.”

Answer 15

“Tell [to] me.”

Question 16

MEG. “tū optima es, soror mea.

Answer 16

MEG. “You are the best, my sister.

Question 17

“tē optimam habeō.”

Answer 17

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

Question 18

EVN. “egone optima?

Answer 18

“I am the best?

Question 19

“tūne mē ita optimam habēs?”

Answer 19

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

Question 20

MEG. “ita dīcō.”

Answer 20

“That’s what I say [I speak thus].”

Question 21

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

Answer 21

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

Question 22

“dā igitur mihi operam.”

Answer 22

“Therefore pay attention to me.”

Question 23

MEG. “opera mea tua est.

Answer 23

MEG. “You have my attention.

Question 24

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

Answer 24

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

Question 25

“quid uīs?

Answer 25

“What do you want?

Question 26

“cūr mē ab aedibus dūcis?

Answer 26

“Why are you leading me from the house?

Question 27

“dīc mihi.”

Answer 27

“Tell [to] me.”

Question 28

EVN. “mī frāter, nunc tibi dīco.

Answer 28

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

Question 29

uxōrem nōn habēs.”

Answer 29

“You do not have a wife.”

Question 30

MEG. “ita est.

Answer 30

MEG. “(That) is so.

Question 31

“sed quid dīcis?”

Answer 31

“But what are you saying?”

Question 32

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

Answer 32

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

Question 33

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

Answer 33

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

Question 34

“cūr uxōrem domum nōn statim dūcis?”

Answer 34

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

Question 35

MEG. “periī, occidī! tacē, soror.

Answer 35

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

Question 36

“quid dīcis? quid uīs?

Answer 36

“What are you saying? What do you want?

Question 37

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

Answer 37

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

Question 38

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

Answer 38

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

Question 39

“tē ita iubeō moneōque : dūc domum uxōrem!”

Answer 39

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

Question 40

MEG. “sed quam in animō habēs?”

Answer 40

MEG. “But whom do you have in mind?”

Question 41

EVN. “uxōrem dīuitem.”

Answer 41

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

Question 42

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

Answer 42

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

Question 43

“praetereā uxōrēs dīuitēs domī nimis pecūniae aurīque rogant.

Answer 43

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

Question 44

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

Answer 44

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

Question 45

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

Answer 45

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

Question 46

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

Answer 46

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

Question 47

EVN. “quam dīcis? puellamne Eucliōnis?

Answer 47

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

Question 48

“ut tamen pulchra est, ita est pauper.

Answer 48

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

Question 49

“nam pater Phaedrae pecūniam habet nūllam.

Answer 49

“For Phaedra’s father has no money.

Question 50

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

Answer 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).”

Question 51

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

Answer 51

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

Question 52

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

Answer 52

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

Question 53

“stant manuleāriī, stant propōlae, linteōnēs, calceolāriī;

Answer 53

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

Question 54

“strophiāriī adstant, adstant simul sōnāriī.

Answer 54

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

Question 55

“pecūniam dās, abeunt.

Answer 55

“You give money, they go away.

Question 56

“tum adstant thȳlacistae in aedibus,

Answer 56

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

Question 57

“textōrēs limbulāriī, arculāriī.

Answer 57

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

Question 58

“pecūniam dās, abeunt.

Answer 58

“You give money, they go away.

Question 59

“intolerābilis est sūmptus uxōrum, sī dōtem magnam habent.

Answer 59

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

Question 60

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

Answer 60

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

Question 61

EVN. “rēctē dīcis, frāter.

Answer 61

EUN. “You speak rightly, brother.

Question 62

“cūr nōn domum Eucliōnis adīs?”

Answer 62

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

Question 63

MEG. “adeō.

Answer 63

MEG. “I approach (it).

Question 64

“ecce, Eucliōnem nunc uideō.

Answer 64

“Look, now I see Euclio.

Question 65

“ā forō redit.”

Answer 65

“He is returning from the forum.”

Question 66

EVN. “ualē, mī frāter.”

Answer 66

EUN. “Goodby, my brother.”

Question 67

(exit ē scaenā soror Megadōrī)

Answer 67

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

Question 68

MEG. “et tū ualē, soror mea.”

Answer 68

MEG. “And goodbye to you, my sister.”