Section 4A English to Greek

Question 1

γεωργός, ὁ

Answer 1

farmer

Question 2

γυνή, γυναικός, ἡ

Answer 2

woman, wife

Question 3

δαίμων, δαίμονος, ὁ

Answer 3

god, daimon

Question 4

ἔτι καὶ νῦν

Answer 4

still, now

Question 5

κρατέω

Answer 5

hold sway, hold power (over)

Question 6

νή (+ acc.)

Answer 6

by …! (+ acc.)

Question 7

ὀλίγος, η, ον.

Answer 7

small, few

Question 8

ΡΑΨ. ὦ Ἡράκλεις. ὅσον ἀνθρώπων πλῆθος.

Answer 8

RHAPSODE Heracles! What a lot of people!

Question 9

πλέα γὰρ φαίνεται τὰ τείχη.

Answer 9

The walls seem full.

Question 10

διὰ τί τοσοῦτον πλῆθος ἔχει ἡ πόλις, ὦ Δικαιόπολι;

Answer 10

Why has the city such a great crowd, Dikaiopolis?

Question 11

οἴμοι, τό τοῦτο;

Answer 11

Alas! What’s this?

Question 12

πυράς τινας ὁρῶ.

Answer 12

I see funeral pyres.

Question 13

εἰπέ μοι, πρὸς τῶν θεῶν, τίς ἡ αἰτία;

Answer 13

Tell me, by the gods, what’s the reason?

Question 14

ἦ που δῆλον ὅτι δαίμων τις κακὸς κολάζει τὴν πόλιν.

Answer 14

Indeed it is clear that some evil god is punishing the city.

Question 15

ΔΙΚ. κακοδαίμων νὴ Δία ἡ πόλις ἐστίν, ὦ ῥαψῳδε, …

Answer 15

DIKAIOPOLIS The city is indeed unfortunate, rhapsode …

Question 16

… κακόδαιμων δὲ τὸ πλῆθος, …

Answer 16

the crowd is unfortunate …

Question 17

… κακοδαίμονες δὲ οἱ γεωργοὶ μάλιστα.

Answer 17

and the farmers in particular are unfortunate.

Question 18

αἴτιος δὲ πρῶτον μὲν ὁ πόλεμος, ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ ὁ Περικλῆς.

Answer 18

The war is primarily responsible, and then also Pericles.

Question 19

ΡΑΨ. ἀλλὰ στρατηγὸς ἄριστος ὁ Περικλῆς.

Answer 19

RHAP. But Pericles [is] a very good general.

Question 20

ὁ γὰρ ναύτης — ΔΙΚ. ἀλλὰ δῆλον ἐστιν ὅτι φιλεῖ τὸν Περικλέα ἐκεῖνος, ναύτης ὤν.

Answer 20

for the sailor — DIK. But it is clear that that man likes Pericles because he’s a sailor.

Question 21

ἐγὼ δὲ ναύτης οὔκ εἰμι, ἀλλὰ γεωργός.

Answer 21

But I’m not a sailor but a farmer.

Question 22

καὶ γεωργὸς ὢν Περικλέα αἴτιον νομίζω.

Answer 22

Since I’m a farmer, I think Pericles [is] responsible.

Question 23

φησὶ γάρ — “ἡμεῖς μὲν κρατοῦμεν κατὰ θάλατταν, Λακεδαιμόνιοι δὲ κατὰ γῆν.”

Answer 23

For he says: “We have supremacy at sea, but the Spartans [have supremacy] on land.

Question 24

“καταλείπετε οὖν, ὦ γεωργοί, τὰς οἰκίας καὶ τὴν γῆν, …

Answer 24

So leave your homes, farmers, and your land, …

Question 25

… καὶ εἰσκομίζεσθε εἰς τὸ ἄστυ τὰ ὑμετέρα σκεύη.”

Answer 25

and bring your property into the city.

Question 26

“καὶ μὴ φροντίζετε.”

Answer 26

Do not worry.

Question 27

́“πόλις γὰρ οὐκ οἰκήσεις ἢ γῆ, ἀλλὰ ἄνδρες.”

Answer 27

For a city is not dwellings or land, but men.”

Question 28

οὕτω μὲν οὖν πείθει ἡμᾶς ὁ Περικλῆς, ῥήτωρ ὢν πιθανός.

Answer 28

So, in this way, Pericles persuades us, since his is a persuasive orator.

Question 29

ἡμεῖς δὲ εἰσκομιζόμεθα ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν τοὺς παῖδας καὶ τὰς γυναῖκας καὶ τὰ ἄλλα σκεύη.

Answer 29

We bring in from the country our children and our wives and the rest of our property.

Question 30

τὰ δε πρόβατα εἰς τὴν Εὔβοιαν διαπεμπόμεθα.

Answer 30

The flocks we transport across to Euboea.

Question 31

ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἡμεῖς, πολλοὶ ὄντες, ἀφικνούμεθα εἰς τὸ ἄστυ, χαλεπὸν γίγνεται τὸ πρᾶγμα.

Answer 31

When we — and there are many of us — arrive in the city, the situation becomes difficult.

Question 32

τὰς μὲν γὰρ οἰκήσεις, ὀλίγας οὔσας, ἔχουσιν οἱ ἀστοί, …

Answer 32

The city-people have the houses, which are few, …

Question 33

ἡμεῖς δὲ πρῶτον μὲν τὰ μακρὰ τείχη, ἔπειτα δὲ τὰ ἱερὰ οἰκοῦμεν.

Answer 33

and we life first in the Long Walls, then in the temples.

Question 34

μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἡ νόσος ἐπιγίγνεται, …

Answer 34

After this the plague occurs;

Question 35

καὶ δεινὴ οὖσα πολλοὺς ἄνδρας διαφθείρει καὶ πολλὰς γυναῖκας καὶ πολλὰ παιδία.

Answer 35

it is terrible and destroys many men, many women, many children.

Question 36

διαφθείρει δὲ καὶ τοὺς ἐμοὺς οἰκείους ἡ νόσος.

Answer 36

The plague also destroys my own household.

Question 37

ὀλοφύρομαι γὰρ ἔτι καὶ νῦν τὸν ἐμὸν υἱόν, οὐκέτ’ ὄντα, καὶ τὴν ἐμὴν γυναῖκα, οὐκέτ’ οὖσαν.

Answer 37

For I am still lamenting my own son, who is no longer, and my own wife, who is no longer.

Question 38

ἔχεις τὸ πρᾶγμα.

Answer 38

You have the situation.

Question 39

ἐμὲ οὖν ὁρᾷς, ὦ ῥαψῳδέ, κακοδαίμονα όντα.

Answer 39

You see me, rhapsode, who am ill-starred.

Question 40

τὴν δὲ πόλιν ὁρᾷς κακοδαίμονα δὴ οὗσαν.

Answer 40

You see the city, also ill-starred.

Question 41

τοὺς δ’ ἐν τῇ πόλει ὁρᾷς κακοδαίμονας ὄντας.

Answer 41

You see the [people] in the city, also ill-starred.

Question 42

γεωργός, ὁ

Answer 42

farmer

Question 43

γυνή, γυναικός, ἡ

Answer 43

woman, wife

Question 44

δαίμων, δαίμονος, ὁ

Answer 44

god, daimon

Question 45

ἔτι καὶ νῦν

Answer 45

still, now

Question 46

κρατέω

Answer 46

hold sway, hold power (over)

Question 47

νή (+ acc.)

Answer 47

by …! (+ acc.)

Question 48

ὀλίγος, η, ον.

Answer 48

small, few