Section 5 (phrases)

Question 1

ἐκ δὲ τοῦ χρηστηρίου τούτου

Answer 1

From this oracle

Question 2

αὐτῷ δεύτερον ἦλθε λεγον,

Answer 2

came a second prophecy to him saying

Question 3

“τούτων ἕνεκα καὶ συνταχύνει σοι ὁ βίος·

Answer 3

“This is exactly why your life is hastening to an end,

Question 4

οὐ γὰρ πεποίηκας ὃ χρεὼν ἦν ποιεῖν.

Answer 4

since you have not done what it was necessary to do

Question 5

δεῖ γὰρ Αἴγυπτον κακοῦσθαι ἐπ’ ἔτη πεντήκοντά τε καὶ ἑκατόν·

Answer 5

For Egypt must suffer for 150 years;

Question 6

καὶ οἱ μὲν δύο βασιλεῖς,

Answer 6

the two kings

Question 7

οἱ πρὸ σοῦ γενόμενοι,

Answer 7

who were before you

Question 8

ἔμαθον τοῦτο,

Answer 8

understood this

Question 9

σὺ δὲ οὔ.”

Answer 9

but you did not.”

Question 10

ταῦτα ἀκούσας

Answer 10

Hearing this,

Question 11

ὁ Μυκερῖνος, ὡς κατακεκριμένων ἤδη οἱ τούτων,

Answer 11

Mycerinus, since these things had already been decided for him,

Question 12

λύχνα ποιησάμενος πολλὰ,

Answer 12

he made lots of lamps

Question 13

ἀνάψας αὐτὰ

Answer 13

and lit them

Question 14

ὅπως γίγνοιτο νὺξ,

Answer 14

whenever night came

Question 15

ἔπινέ τε

Answer 15

He both drank

Question 16

καὶ ηὐπάθει

Answer 16

and made merry

Question 17

οὔθ’ ἡμέρας οὔτε νυκτὸς ἀνιείς,

Answer 17

giving up neither day nor night,

Question 18

εἴς τε τὰ ἕλη καὶ τὰ ἄλση πλανώμενος

Answer 18

wandering into the marshes and groves

Question 19

καὶ ἵνα γῆς πυνθάνοιτο

Answer 19

and wherever in the land he discovered

Question 20

εἶναι ἐνηβητήρια ἐπιτηδειότατα.

Answer 20

to be the most appropriate places of amusement.

Question 21

ταῦτα δὲ ἐμηχανᾶτο

Answer 21

He devised these actions

Question 22

ἐθέλων τὸ μαντεῖον ψευδόμενον ἀποδεῖξαι,

Answer 22

wishing to prove the oracle false

Question 23

ἵνα οἱ δώδεκα ἔτη ἀντὶ ἓξ ἐτῶν γένοιτο,

Answer 23

so that he might have 12 years instead of 6,

Question 24

τῶν νυκτῶν ἡμερῶν ποιουμένων.

Answer 24

by turning nights into days.