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Question 1

Sedebat in rostris conlega tuus amictus toga purpurea in sella aurea coronatus.

Answer 1

Your colleague was sitting on the rostra wearing a purple toga, on a golden chair, crowned.

Question 2

Escendis, accedis ad sellam, (ita eras Lupercus, ut te consulem esse meminisse deberes) diadema ostendis.

Answer 2

You climbed, you approached his chair - although you were a priest, you ought to have remembered you were also a consul - you held out a crown.

Question 3

Gemitus toto foro.

Answer 3

There were huge groans from the whole forum.

Question 4

Unde diadema?

Answer 4

Where did the crown come from?

Question 5

Non enim abiectum sustuleras, sed adtuleras domo meditatum et cogitatum scelus.

Answer 5

For you had not picked it up, having been discarded, but you had brought it from your house as a contemplated and planned crime.

Question 6

Tu diadema inponebas cum plangore populi, ille cum plausu reiciebat.

Answer 6

You kept trying to place the crown on Caesar’s head, amid a loud lamentation from the people; he kept rejecting it with applause.

Question 7

Tu ergo unus, scelerate, inventus es, qui cum auctor regni esse eumque, quem collegam habebas, dominum habere velles,

Answer 7

Therefore alone, you scoundrel, you were found an agent of kingly power, whom you had as a colleague but you wanted to have as a master,

Question 8

idem temptares, quid populus Romanus ferre et pati posset.

Answer 8

you are the same person who tried to find out what the Roman people could suffer and endure.