Section 4C(i) Diodorus' silver cups

Question 1

Diodōrus, quī Melitēnsis erat, Lilybaeī multōs annōs habitābat.

Answer 1

Diodorus, who was Maltese, was living for many years at Lilybaeum.

Question 2

hic homo, quem dīcō, erat nōbilī genere nātus et splendidus et grātiōsus …

Answer 2

This man (of) whom I speak was born of a noble family and was excellent and popular …

Question 3

… propter uirtūtem, quam omnēs Lilybītanī cognōuerant.

Answer 3

… on account of his virtue, which all the Lilybaeans recognized.

Question 4

at Verre praetōre, prope āmissūrus erat omnia quae domī collēgerat.

Answer 4

But when Verres was praetor, he [Diodorus] was almost going to loose all the things which he had collected at home.

Question 5

nam comitēs, quōs Verrēs Lilybaeum dēdūxerat, Diodōrum pōcula quaedam habēre nūntiāuērunt;

Answer 5

For the companions which Verres had brought to Lilybaeum, announced that Diodorus had certain cups;

Question 6

ea pōcula omnibus aliīs pulchriōra esse.

Answer 6

(and that) those cups were more beautiful than all others.

Question 7

(quae pōcula, ut posteā audīuī, Mentōr summō artificiō fēcerat.)

Answer 7

(Which cups, as I heard later, Mentor had made with the highest skill.)

Question 8

quod ubi Verrēs audīuit, cupiditāte īnflammātus, Diodōrum ad sē uocāuit …

Answer 8

When Verres heard this [which things when Verres heard them], on fire with greed, he called Diodorus to him …

Question 9

… et pōcula, quōrum mentiōnem comitēs fēcerant, poscēbat.

Answer 9

… and he asked for the cups, of which his companions had made mention.

Question 10

ille sē Lilybaeī ea pōcula nōn habēre respondit, …

Answer 10

That man replied that he didn’t have the cups at Lilybaeum, …

Question 11

… sed Melitae apud propinquum quendam relīquisse.

Answer 11

… but had left them at Malta at the home of a certain kinsman.

Question 12

tum iste mittēbat hominēs Melitam, …

Answer 12

Then THAT one started sending people to Malta, …

Question 13

… scrībēbat ad quōsdam Melitēnsīs, …

Answer 13

… he was writing to certain Maltese, …

Question 14

… pōcula rogābat, …

Answer 14

… he was asking for the cups, …

Question 15

… iubēbat Diodōrum ad illum propinquum suum dare litterās.

Answer 15

… (and) he was ordering Diodorus to give a letter to that kinsman of his.

Question 16

quod ubi audīuit, Diodōrus, quī sua seruāre cōnstituerat, ad propinquum suum litterās mīsit;

Answer 16

When he heard this, Diodorus, who had decided to preserve his own (possessions), sent a letter to his kinsman;

Question 17

quibus in litterīs scrībere ausus erat propinquum oportēre negāre sē pōcula habēre, …

Answer 17

in which letters he had dared to write that his kinsman ought to deny that he had the cups, …

Question 18

… sed affirmāre sē ea paucīs illīs diēbus mīsisse Lilybaeum.

Answer 18

… but (should) assert that he had sent them to Lilybaeum a few days (earlier).

Question 19

quās ubi propinquus perlēgit, ita fēcit.

Answer 19

When the kinsman read these these things, he did as instructed.

Question 20

intereā Diodōrus ipse, …

Answer 20

Meanwhile Diodorus himself, …

Question 21

… quī abesse domō paulisper, cōnstituerat potius quam argentum āmittere, …

Answer 21

… who had decided to be away from home for a while rather than lose his silver, …

Question 22

Lilybaeō abiit.

Answer 22

left Lilybaeum