section 83

Question 1

Confecto negotio bonus augur (C. Laelium diceres) ‘ALIO DIE’ inquit.

Answer 1

When the business is completed, our excellent augur - you can call him a (real) C. Laelius - said: ‘on another day.’

Question 2

O inpudentiam singularem!

Answer 2

What unparalleled carelessness!

Question 3

Quid videras, quid senseras, quid audieras?

Answer 3

What had you seen, felt, heard?

Question 4

Neque enim te de caelo servasse dixisti nec hodie dicis.

Answer 4

For you neither said that you had watched from heaven nor do you say today.

Question 5

Id igitur obvenit vitium, quod tu iam Kalendis Ianuariis futurum esse provideras et tanto ante praedixeras.

Answer 5

Therefore this unfavourable sign happened which you had already foreseen on the Kalends of January and you had predicted so great a time ago would be.

Question 6

Ergo hercule magna, ut spero, tua potius quam rei publicae calamitate ementitus es auspicia,

Answer 6

Therefore, great Scott, as I hope, you falsified the auspices at your, rather than the Republic’s, great detriment.

Question 7

obstrinxisti religione populum Romanum, augur auguri, consul consuli obnuntiasti.

Answer 7

You tied up the Roman people with ritual; you announced unfavourable omens augur to augur; consul to consul.

Question 8

Nolo plura, ne acta Dolabellae videar convellere, quae necesse est aliquando ad nostrum collegium deferantur.

Answer 8

I do not want (to say) more, lest I seem to tear apart the deeds of Dolabella, which is necessary they be referred to our college at the same time.