Section 4A English to Greek

Question 1

farmer

Answer 1

γεωργός, ὁ

Question 2

woman, wife

Answer 2

γυνή, γυναικός, ἡ

Question 3

god, daimon

Answer 3

δαίμων, δαίμονος, ὁ

Question 4

still, now

Answer 4

ἔτι καὶ νῦν

Question 5

hold sway, hold power (over)

Answer 5

κρατέω

Question 6

by …! (+ acc.)

Answer 6

νή (+ acc.)

Question 7

small, few

Answer 7

ὀλίγος, η, ον.

Question 8

RHAPSODE Heracles! What a lot of people!

Answer 8

ΡΑΨ. ὦ Ἡράκλεις. ὅσον ἀνθρώπων πλῆθος.

Question 9

The walls seem full.

Answer 9

πλέα γὰρ φαίνεται τὰ τείχη.

Question 10

Why has the city such a great crowd, Dikaiopolis?

Answer 10

διὰ τί τοσοῦτον πλῆθος ἔχει ἡ πόλις, ὦ Δικαιόπολι;

Question 11

Alas! What’s this?

Answer 11

οἴμοι, τό τοῦτο;

Question 12

I see funeral pyres.

Answer 12

πυράς τινας ὁρῶ.

Question 13

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

Answer 13

εἰπέ μοι, πρὸς τῶν θεῶν, τίς ἡ αἰτία;

Question 14

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

Answer 14

ἦ που δῆλον ὅτι δαίμων τις κακὸς κολάζει τὴν πόλιν.

Question 15

DIKAIOPOLIS The city is indeed unfortunate, rhapsode …

Answer 15

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

Question 16

the crowd is unfortunate …

Answer 16

… κακόδαιμων δὲ τὸ πλῆθος, …

Question 17

and the farmers in particular are unfortunate.

Answer 17

… κακοδαίμονες δὲ οἱ γεωργοὶ μάλιστα.

Question 18

The war is primarily responsible, and then also Pericles.

Answer 18

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

Question 19

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

Answer 19

ΡΑΨ. ἀλλὰ στρατηγὸς ἄριστος ὁ Περικλῆς.

Question 20

for the sailor —

Answer 20

ὁ γὰρ ναύτης —

Question 21

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

Answer 21

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

Question 22

But I’m not a sailor but a farmer.

Answer 22

ἐγὼ δὲ ναύτης οὔκ εἰμι, ἀλλὰ γεωργός.

Question 23

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

Answer 23

καὶ γεωργὸς ὢν Περικλέα αἴτιον νομίζω.

Question 24

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

Answer 24

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

Question 25

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

Answer 25

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

Question 26

and bring your property into the city.

Answer 26

… καὶ εἰσκομίζεσθε εἰς τὸ ἄστυ τὰ ὑμετέρα σκεύη.”

Question 27

Do not worry.

Answer 27

“καὶ μὴ φροντίζετε.”

Question 28

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

Answer 28

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

Question 29

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

Answer 29

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

Question 30

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

Answer 30

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

Question 31

The flocks we transport across to Euboea.

Answer 31

τὰ δε πρόβατα εἰς τὴν Εὔβοιαν διαπεμπόμεθα.

Question 32

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

Answer 32

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

Question 33

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

Answer 33

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

Question 34

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

Answer 34

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

Question 35

After this the plague occurs;

Answer 35

μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἡ νόσος ἐπιγίγνεται, …

Question 36

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

Answer 36

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

Question 37

The plague also destroys my own household.

Answer 37

διαφθείρει δὲ καὶ τοὺς ἐμοὺς οἰκείους ἡ νόσος.

Question 38

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

Answer 38

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

Question 39

You have the situation.

Answer 39

ἔχεις τὸ πρᾶγμα.

Question 40

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

Answer 40

ἐμὲ οὖν ὁρᾷς, ὦ ῥαψῳδέ, κακοδαίμονα όντα.

Question 41

You see the city, also ill-starred.

Answer 41

τὴν δὲ πόλιν ὁρᾷς κακοδαίμονα δὴ οὗσαν.

Question 42

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

Answer 42

τοὺς δ’ ἐν τῇ πόλει ὁρᾷς κακοδαίμονας ὄντας.

Question 43

farmer

Answer 43

γεωργός, ὁ

Question 44

woman, wife

Answer 44

γυνή, γυναικός, ἡ

Question 45

god, daimon

Answer 45

δαίμων, δαίμονος, ὁ

Question 46

still, now

Answer 46

ἔτι καὶ νῦν

Question 47

hold sway, hold power (over)

Answer 47

κρατέω

Question 48

by …! (+ acc.)

Answer 48

νή (+ acc.)

Question 49

small, few

Answer 49

ὀλίγος, η, ον.