Section 4D(ii) Verres executes Roman citizens

Question 1

Syrācūsānī, hominēs perītī et hūmānī, habēbant ratiōnem cotīdiē praedōnum secūrī percussōrum.

Answer 1

The Syracusans, (being) skilful and civilized people, held a reckoning every day of the brigands executed by ax.

Question 2

sed praedōnum magnum numerum dēesse mox sēnsērunt

Answer 2

But they soon perceived that a great number of brigands was missing.

Question 3

(nam ratiō eōrum habita erat ex numerō rēmōrum quī cum nāue captī erant).

Answer 3

(For their accounting had been made [held] from the number of rowers who had been taken with the ship.)

Question 4

nam ā Verre omnēs quī aliquid aut artificī aut fōrmae habuerant remōtī atque abductī erant.

Answer 4

For all who had anything of craft or beauty had been got out of the way and removed by Verres.

Question 5

quibus abductīs, iste homo nefārius, clāmōrem populī fore suspicātus, …

Answer 5

And when they had been removed [which people having been removed], THIS wicked man, have suspected that there would be an outcry of the people, …

Question 6

in praedōnum locum substituere coepit cīuīs Rōmānōs, …

Answer 6

… began, in the place of the bridgands, to substitute Roman citizens, …

Question 7

… quōs in carcerem anteā coniēcerat.

Answer 7

… which he had previously thrown into jail.

Question 8

(eōs Sertōriānōs mīlitēs fuisse aut suā uoluntāte cum praedōnibus coniūnctōs esse arguēbat).

Answer 8

(He was claiming that they had been soldiers of Sertorius or had been joined with the brigands of their own free will.)

Question 9

hōc modō cīuēs Rōmānī, …

Answer 9

In this manner Roman citizens, …

Question 10

… quī ā multīs cīuibus Rōmānīs cognōscēbantur et ab omnibus dēfendēbantur,

Answer 10

… who were being recognized by many Roman citizens and were being defended by everyone, …

Question 11

… secūrī feriēbantur.

Answer 11

… were being executed by the ax.

Question 12

haec igitur est gesta rēs, haec erat uictōria praeclāra:

Answer 12

This affair therefore was achieved, this was a famous victory:

Question 13

Verre praetōre, …

Answer 13

when Verres was praetor [with Verres as praetor], …

Question 14

… nāue praedōnum captā,

Answer 14

… when the ship of the brigands had been captured [the ship of the brigands having been captured], …

Question 15

… dux praedōnum līberātus est, …

Answer 15

… the leader of the brigand was freed, …

Question 16

… symphōniacī Rōmam missī, …

Answer 16

… the musicians were sent to Rome, …

Question 17

… fōrmōsī hominēs et artificēs domum Verris abductī, …

Answer 17

… the attractive people and the craftsmen were removed to the home of Verres, …

Question 18

… et in eōrum locum cīuibus Rōmānīs secūrī percussīs, …

Answer 18

… and when Roman citizens had been executed [Roman citizens having been executed] by ax in their place, …

Question 19

… omnis uestis ablāta, …

Answer 19

… all the clothing (was) taken away, …

Question 20

… omne aurum et argentum ablātum atque āuersum.

Answer 20

… (and) all the gold and silver was taken away and stolen.