Suetonius Section D - Translation

Question 1

petulantem, libidinem, luxuriam, avaritiam, crudelitatem … primo … exercuit

Answer 1

at first he practised petulance, desire, extravagance, greed and cruelty

Question 2

sensim quidem … et occulte et velut iuvenili errore

Answer 2

at least gradually and both in secret, and as if [they were] youthful mistakes

Question 3

sed ut tunc quoque dubium nemini foret

Answer 3

but even then, so that (no one was in any doubt) [that]

lit. there was doubt for no one

Question 4

naturae illa vitia, non aetatis esse

Answer 4

those things were faults of his character, not of his age

Question 5

post crepusculum statim adrepto pilleo vel galero

Answer 5

immediately after dusk having grabbed a hat or a wig

Question 6

popinas inibat circumque vicos vagabatur ludibundus

Answer 6

he would visit the taverns and wander about the streets in a playful mood

Question 7

nec sine pernicie tamen, siquidem redeuntes a cena verberare … assuerat

Answer 7

not however without mischief, for if ([he came across some people] coming home from dinner, he used to attack them)

lit. he was accustomed to attack [those] returning from dinner

Question 8

repugnantes vulnerare cloacisque demergere assuerat

Answer 8

if they fought back he was accustomed to stab them and drop them down into the sewers

Question 9

tabernas etiam effringere et expilare

Answer 9

he also used to break into shops and plunder them

Question 10

quintana domi constituta

Answer 10

(after he had organised a street market) in his home

lit. with a street market organised

Question 11

ubi partae … ad licitationem dividendae praedae pretium absumeretur

Answer 11

when (the plunder was divided into lots for bids, the proceeds) were squandered

lit. the proceeds of the plunder acquired and divided into lots for bids