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Latin
Midterm 2
73
Language - Latin
Undergraduate 2
10/15/2013

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Optasne meam vitam fortunamque gustare?
Definition
Do you wish to taste (experience) my life and fortune?
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Possumusne, O di, in malis insidiis et magno exitio esse salvi?
Definition
Are we able, O gods, to be (can we be) safe in evil treachery and great ruin?
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Propter curam meam in perpetuo periculo non eritis.
Definition
You will not be in eternal danger because of my care.
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Propter vitia tua multi te culpant et nihil te in patria tua delectare nunc potest.
Definition
Many blame you because of your life, and nothing in your country can delight you now.
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Patria Romanorum erat plena Graecorum librorum statuarumque pulchrarum.
Definition
The Romans' fatherland was full of Greek books and beautiful statues.
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Sine dis et deabus in caelo animus non potest sanus esse.
Definition
Without the gods and goddesses in the sky, the soul cannot be sane.
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Si animus infirmus est, non poterit bonam fortunam tolerare.
Definition
If the spirit is weak, it will not be able to tolerate good fortune.
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Ubi leges valent, ibi populus liber potest valere.
Definition
Where the laws are strong, there a free people can be well.
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Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare.
Hoc tantum possum dicere: non amo te.
Definition
I do not love you, Sabidius, and I cannot say why.
I can say only this: I do not love you.
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Populus Romanus magnos animos et paucas culpas habebat.
Definition
The Roman people used to have great courage and few faults.
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De officis nostris cogitabamus et gloriam belli semper laudabamus.
Definition
We used to think about our duties and were always praising the glory of war.
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Sed nunc multum otium habemus, et multi sunt avari.
Definition
But now we have much leisure, and many men are greedy.
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Nec vitia nostra nec remedia tolerare possumus.
Definition
We can tolerate neither our faults nor their remedies.
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Homo sum.
Definition
I am a man.
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Nihil sub sole novum.
Definition
Nothing under the sun is new.
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Carmina nova de adulescentia virginibus puerisque nunc canto.
Definition
I now sing new songs about the youth of maidens and boys.
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Lausas fortunam et mores antiquae plebis.
Definition
You praise the fortune and customs of the ancient common people.
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Boni propter amorem virtutis peccare oderunt.
Definition
Because of their love of virtue, good men hate to sin.
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Sub principe duro temporibusque malis audes esse bonus.
Definition
Under a harsh emperor and bad times you dare to be good.
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Populus stultus viris indignis honores saepe dat.
Definition
A stupid citizenry often gives honors to unworthy men.
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Nomina stultorum in parietibus et portis semper videmus.
Definition
We always see the names of stupid men on walls and gates.
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Otium sine litteris mors est.
Definition
Leisure without literature is death.
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Multae nationes servitutem tolerare possunt; nostra civitas non potest. Praeclara est recuperatio libertatis.
Definition
Many nations are able to tolerate servitude; our state cannot. The recovery of liberty is noble.
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Nihil sine magno labore vita mortalibus dat.
Definition
Life gives nothing to mortals without great labor.
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Quomodo in perpetua pace salbi et liberi esse poterimus.
Definition
How will we be able to be well and free in perpetual peace?
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Gloria in altissimis Deo et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.
Definition
Glory in the highest to God and peace on earth to men of good will.
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Tarquinius Superbus erat rex Romanorum, et Sextus Tarquinius erat filius malus tyranni.
Definition
Tarquinius Superbus was king of the Romans, and Sextus Tarquinius was the tyrant’s evil
son.
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Sextus Lucretiam, uxorem Collatini, rapuit, et femina bona, propter magnum amorem virtutis, se necavit.
Definition
Sextus raped Lucretia, wife of Collatinus, and the good woman, on account of her great love of virtue, killed herself.
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Romani antiqui virtutem animosque Lucretiae semper laudabant et Tarquinios culpabant.
Definition
The ancient Romans always used to praise the virtue and courage of Lucretia and blame the Tarquins.
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Cornelio, viro magnae sapientiae, dabo pulchrum librum novum.
Definition
To Cornelius, a man of great wisdom, I shall give my beatiful new book.
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Corenli, mi amice, libros meos semper laudabas, et es magister doctus litterarum!
Definition
Cornelius, my friend, you always praised my books, and you are a learned teacher of literature.
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Quare habe novum laborem meum: fama libri (et tua fama) erit perpetua.
Definition
Therefore, have my new work; the fame of the book (and your fame) will be everlasting.
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Frater meus vitiam in otio semper aget.
Definition
My brother will always live his life in leisure.
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Age, age! Iuva me! Duc me ad secundum filium meum.
Definition
Come, come! Help me! Lead me to my second son!
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O amici, libertatem perdimus.
Definition
O Friends, we are destroying freedom.
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Nova pericula populo Romano exponam sina mora.
Definition
I shall explain the new dangers to the Roman people without delay.
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Numquam periculum sine periculo vincemus.
Definition
We will never overcome danger without danger.
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Ex meis erroribus hominibus rectum iter demonstrare possum.
Definition
From my errors I am to show men the right way.
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Catullus Marco Tullio Ciceroni magnas gratias agit.
Definition
Catullus gives great thanks to Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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Eximia forma virginis oculos hominum convertit.
Definition
The virgin's extraordinary beauty attracts the eyes of men.
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Agamemnon magnas copias e terra Graeca ad Troiam ducet, ubi multos viros necabit.
Definition
Agamemnon will lead his vast troops from the Greek land to Troy, where he will kill many men.
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Amor laudis homines trahit.
Definition
Love of praise draws men.
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Auctores pacis Caesar conservabit.
Definition
Caesar will preserve the authors of peace.
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Inter multas curas laboresque carmina scribere non possum.
Definition
Between many cares and labors, I am not able to write poems.
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Dum in magna urbe declamas, mi amice, scriptorem Troiani belli in otio relego.
Definition
While you, my friend are declaiming in the great city, I am re-reading the author of the Trojan war in leisure.
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Homines, dum docent, discunt.
Definition
Men, while they teach, they learn.
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Ratio me ducet, non fortuna.
Definition
Reason, not luck, will lead me.
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Ubi illas nunc videre possum?
Definition
Where am I able to see these women?
Term
Hic illam virginem in matrimonium ducet.
Definition
This man will lead that maiden in marriage.
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Huic consilio palmam do.
Definition
I give the palm to this plan.
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Virtutem enim illius viri amamus.
Definition
Indeed, we love the virtue of that man.
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Solus hunc iuvare potes.
Definition
You alone are able to help this man.
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Poena istius unius hunc corbum civitatis relevabit sed periculum semper remanebit.
Definition
The punishment of that man will relieve the disease of this state, but the danger will always remain.
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Hi enim de exitio huius civitatis et totius orbis terrarum cogitant.
Definition
For these men are thinking about the ruin of this state of of the whole world.
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Est nullus locus utri homini in hac terra.
Definition
There is no place in this land for either man.
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Non solum eventus hoc docet--iste est magister stultorum!-sed etiam ratio.
Definition
Not only does the result teach this--that is the teacher of fools--but also reason.
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Cupiditatem pecuniae gloriaque fugite.
Definition
Shun the desire of money and glory.
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Officium meum faciam.
Definition
I shall do my duty.
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Fama tua et vita filiae tuae in periculum cras venient.
Definition
Your fame and the life of your daughter will come into danger tomorrow.
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Vita non est vivere sed valere.
Definition
Life is not to live but to be well.
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Semper magno cum timore incipio dicere.
Definition
I always begin to speak with great fear.
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Si me duces, Musa, coronam magna cum laude capiam.
Definition
If you lead me, Muse, I shall seize the crown with great praise.
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Vive memor mortis; fugit hora.
Definition
Live mindful of death; the hour flees.
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Rapite, amici, occasionem de hora.
Definition
Seize, my friends, the opportunity of the hour.
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Pauci veniunt ad senectutem.
Definition
Few men come to old age.
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Sed fugit, interea, fugit tempus.
Definition
But time flees, meanwhile, it flees.
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Fata viam invenient.
Definition
The Fates will find a way.
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Bonum virum natura, non ordo, facit.
Definition
Nature, not rank, makes a good man.
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Obsequium parit amicos; verita parit odium.
Definition
Compliance produces friends; truth produces hatred.
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Nihil cum amicitia possum comparare; di hominibus nihil melius dant.
Definition
I am able to compare nothing with friendship; the gods give nothing better to men.
Term
Pecuniam alii malunt; alii, corpora sana; alii, famam gloriamque; alii, coluptates--sed hi viri nimium errant, quoniam ill sunt incerta et ex fortuna ceniunt, non ex sapientia.
Definition
Some prefer money; others, healthy bodies; others, fame and glory; others, pleasures--but these men are quite mistaken, since those are things are uncertain and come from fortune, not from wisdom.
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Amicitia enim ex sapientia et amore et moribus bonis et virtute venit; sine virtute amicitia non potest esse.
Definition
Truly, friendship comes from wisdom and love and good character and virtue; without virtue friendship cannot be.
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Si nullos amicos habes, habes vitam tyranni; si invenies amicum verum, vita tua erit beata.
Definition
If you have no friends, you have a tyrant's life; if you find a true friends, your life will be blessed.
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