Suetonius Section G - Translation

Question 1

uxores praeter Octaviam duas postea duxit

Answer 1

(after Octavia, he married two more wives)

lit. afterwards he married two more wives besides Octavia

Question 2

Poppeam Sabinam quaestorio patre natam

Answer 2

Poppaea Sabina, the daughter of (a father of quaestorial rank)

lit. an ex-quaestor father

Question 3

equiti Romano antea nuptam

Answer 3

who was formerly married to a Roman equestrian

Question 4

deinde Statiliam Messalinam Tauri bis consulis ac triumphalis abneptem

Answer 4

then Statilia Messalina, the great-great-granddaughter of Taurus, who was twice a consul and had been awarded a triumph

Question 5

qua ut poteretur … in honore ipso

Answer 5

in order that he might acquire [Statilia] as a reward for himself

Question 6

virum eius Atticum Vestinum consulem … trucidavit

Answer 6

he murdered her husband Atticus Vestinus, the consul

Question 7

Octaviae consuetudinem cito aspernatus, corripientibus amicis … respondit

Answer 7

he quickly rejected intimacy with Octavia, and when his friends criticised him, he replied

Question 8

‘sufficere illi debere’ … ‘uxoria ornamenta’

Answer 8

‘(it ought to be enough for that woman to have the trappings of a wife)’

lit. the trappings of a wife ought to have been enough …

Question 9

eandem mox saepe frustra strangulare meditatus

Answer 9

soon [after that] (he considered strangling) her, [but] in vain

Question 10

dimisit ut sterilem

Answer 10

he divorced her [saying she was] unable to have children

Question 11

improbante divortium populo nec parcente conviciis, etiam relegavit

Answer 11

(since the people disapproved) of this divorce (nor did they hold back with their complaints), he also exiled her

lit. with the people disapproving … and not holding back complaints