section 84

Question 1

Sed adrogantiam hominis insolentiamque cognoscite.

Answer 1

But learn the arrogance and the shamelessness of the man.

Question 2

Quamdiu tu voles, vitiosus consul Dolabella; rursus, cum voles, salvis auspiciis creatus.

Answer 2

For as long a time as you want, the consul Dolabella is invalidly elected. Again, since you want, he is elected with favourable auspices.

Question 3

Si nihil est, cum augur iis verbis nuntiat, quibus tu nuntiasti, confitere te, cum ‘ALIO DIE’ dixeris,

Answer 3

If there is nothing, when the augur announces in these words, in which you announced, confess that, when you said ‘on another day,’

Question 4

sobrium non fuisse; sin est aliqua vis in istis verbis, ea quae sit, augur a collega requiro.

Answer 4

you had not been sober, and if, however there is power in these words, I as augur request from a colleague what that is.

Question 5

Sed ne forte ex multis rebus gestis M. Antoni rem unam pulcherrimam transiliat oratio, ad Lupercalia veniamus.

Answer 5

But lest by chance my speech skips over one very beautiful thing in Anthony’s many deeds. Let us come to Lupercalia.

Question 6

Non dissimulat, patres conscripti, adparet esse commotum; sudat, pallet.

Answer 6

He does not hide (it), conscript fathers: it appears that he is perturbed; he sweats, he grows pale.

Question 7

Quidlibet, modo ne nauseet, faciat, quod in porticu Minucia fecit.

Answer 7

Let him do whatever he pleases, provided he doesn’t spew up, which he did in the portico of Minucius.

Question 8

Quae potest esse turpitudinis tantae defensio?

Answer 8

What defence can there be of such a great disguise?

Question 9

Cupio audire, ut videam, ubi rhetoris sit tanta merces id est ubi campus Leontinus appareat.

Answer 9

I desire to hear, so that I may see where so great a fee to your instructor is, where the Leontine plain appears.