Section 4B(i) Verres stays with Janitor at Lampsacus

Question 1

oppidum est in Hellēspontō Lampsacum, iūdicēs.

Answer 1

There is a a town on the Hellespont (called) Lampsacus, judges.

Question 2

hoc oppidum clārius et nōbilius est quam ūllum Asiae oppidum, …

Answer 2

This town is more famous and more noble than any town of Asia, …

Question 3

… et ipsī Lampsacēnī quiētiōrēs omnibus aliīs hominibus.

Answer 3

and the Lampsacenes themselves are more peaceful than any other people.

Question 4

mālunt enim ut Graecī ōtiō ūtī et pāce fruī, quam tumultum excitāre.

Answer 4

For they, as Greeks [= being Greeks], prefer to enjoy tranquility and peace than to stir up disorder.

Question 5

Verrēs ōlim peruēnit Lampsacum, cum magnā calamitāte et prope perniciē cīuitātis.

Answer 5

Verres once arrived at Lampsacus, with a great disaster and almost destruction of the state.

Question 6

Lampsacēnī istum dēdūxērunt ad Iānitōrem quendam hospitem, …

Answer 6

The Lampsacenes led THAT one away to a certain Janitor as a host, …

Question 7

… comitēsque eius omnīs apud cēterōs hospitēs collocārunt.

Answer 7

… and the placed his [Verres’] companions at the homes of other hosts.

Question 8

ut mōs fuit istīus, statim iussit comitēs suōs, uirōs peiōrēs omnibus aliīs turpiōrēsque, reperīre mulierem cēterīs pulchriōrem.

Answer 8

As was the custom of that dreadful man, he immediately ordered his companions, men worse than all others and more disgraceful, to find a woman more beautiful than the others.

Question 9

uōs omnēs scītis, iūdicēs, Verrem fēminās cēterīs pulchriōrēs semper cupīuisse.

Answer 9

You all know, judges, that Verres has always desired women more beautiful than others.