Latin 101

Mid-semester translation assignment

Due 4pm 11 September

This assignment is worth 15% of your final mark

Instructions:
Choose ANY THREE of the following passages. Translate each of your three passages into
reasonably smooth English AND answer the questions which follow for each of your three
chosen passages.
Please submit a typed document containing your answers to Canvas by the due date.
Vocab has been supplied if it is not in the list at the back of Wheelocks.

A. Cicero, In Catilinam [adapted]

Catilina ex urbe media expulsus est. Erat ille qui timebatur ab omnibus, tam diu dum urbis
moenibus continebatur. Nunc ille homo tam acer, tam audax, tam in scelere vigilans, tam in
malis rebus diligens, sublatus est. Quamquam haec omnia, o cives, sunt a me administrata,
videntur tamen imperio atque consilio deorum immortalium et gesta et provisa esse. Nam
multis temporibus di immortales spem fidemque huis rei publicae aluerunt. Hoc autem
tempore praeclarissimas eis gratias agere debetis. Erepti enim estis ex crudelissima ac misera
morte, erepti (estis) sine caede, sine sanguine, sine exercitu.

Vocab:
administro, -are, -avi, -atum = to
administer, govern
audax, -acis = bold, daring
caedes, -is, f = slaughter
Catilina, -ae, m = Catiline [leader of a
conspiracy in 63 BCE, foiled by Cicero]
crudelissimus, -a, -um = most cruel
diligens, -entis = careful, diligent
exercitus, -us, m = army
expello, -ere, -puli, pulsus = to expel,
banish
moenia, -ium, n, pl = walls
praeclarissimus, -a, -um = most splendid
provideo, -ere, -vidi, -visum = to provide
for, see to
quamquam = although [adverb]
sanguis, -inis, m = blood, bloodshed
tam = so, such [adverb]
vigilans, -antis = watchful, vigilant

Questions for passage A:

1. Identify all the ablatives in this passage and parse them
2. Identify all the passive verb forms in this passage and parse them

B. Caesar, De Bello Gallico

Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam
qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur. Hi omnes lingua, institutis, legibus inter
se differunt. Gallos ab Aquitanis Garumna flumen, a Belgis Matrona et Sequana dividit.
Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae, propterea quod a cultu atque humanitate provinciae
longissime absunt, minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant atque ea quae ad
effeminandos animos pertinent important, proximique sunt Germanis, qui trans Rhenum
incolunt, quibuscum continenter bellum gerunt.

Vocab:
Aquitani, -orum, m = the Aquitani [a tribe]
Belgae, -arum, m = the Belgae [a tribe]
Celtae, -arum, m = the Celts
commeo, -are, -avi, atum = to come and
go, visit
continenter = continually
cultus, us, m = cultivation, civilisation
fortissimus, -a, -um = strongest
Galli, -orum, m = the Gauls
Gallia, -ae, f = Gaul
Garumna, -ae, m = the Garonne [a river]
Germani, -orum, m = the Germani
differo, differe, distuli, dilatum = to differ
divido, -ere, divisi, divisum = to divide
divisus, -a, -um = divided
effeminandus, -a -um = effeminate
importo, -are, -avi, atum = to import
incolo, -ere, lui = to inhabit, dwell
institutum, -i, n = habits, practices, ways of
life
longissimus, -a, um = furthest, longest
Matrona, -ae, m = the Marne [a river]
mercator, -oris, m = merchant
minime = least [adverb]
propterea quod = on account of, because
[adverb]
provincia, -ae, f = province [here meaning
the Roman province in southern Gaul]
Rhenus, i, m = the Rhine [a river]
Sequana, -ae, m = the Seine [a river]

Questions for passage B:

1. Identify all the verbs in this passage and parse them
2. Identify all the pronouns in this passage and parse them

C. Epitaph from the church of St Peter in Vienne

[some elements been changed to be closer to classical Latin]

Hic requiescit in pace bonae memoriae Eufemia, Deo

sacrata, omni gratia spiritali ornata; quae
prima est in caritatem uirginitatem pietatem.
XXIII suae anno, mortem superavit et vitam
invenit, quia solum vitae auctorem dilexit in
terris, cum ipso iuncta est in caelo; obiit in Christo
resurrictura in gloria

Vocab: pietas, -atis, f = piety

Christus, -i, m = Christ
Eufemia = the name of the deceased
person
gratia, -ae, f = grace
obeo, -ire, -ii, -itum = to die
ornatus, -a, -um = ornamented
primus, -a, -um = first
resurrictura = will be resurrected
sacratus, -a, -um = sacred
spiritalis, -e = spiritual
virginitas, -atis, f = virginity
Questions for passage C:
1. Identify all the nouns in this passage and parse them
2. Identify all the adjectives in this passage and parse them

D. J.K. Rowling and Peter Needham, Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis [adapted]

Hagrid magno sonitu oscitavit, sedere coepit et extendit. “Melius erit abire, Harri. Ibimus
Londinium. Apparatus omnes scholasticos tibi ememus.”
“Hagrid?” inquit Harrius.
“Quid est?” inquit Hagrid.
“Ullam pecuniam non teneo et audivisti quid heri vespere Avunculus Vernon dixit. Non
pendet mihi discere magum.”
“Noli te de hac re sollicitare,” inquit Hagrid qui surrexit et caput scabit, “num putas parentes
nihil tibi reliquerunt?”
“Sed si domus eorum deleta est -”
“Aurum non domi servaverunt, puer! Primum visitabimus Gringotts, argentariam magorum.”
“Magi argentarias habent?”
“Unam. Gringotts. A daemonibus administratur.”
Harrius demisit quod manibus tenebat. “Daemones dixisti?”
Vocab: magus, -i, m = magic, magician/ wizard
administro, -are, -avi, -atum = to melius = better
administer, govern noli = don’t (+ infin.)
argentaria, -ae, f = bank oscito, -are, avi, -atum = to yawn
Avunculus Vernon = Uncle Vernon pendo, -ere, pependi, pensum = to pay, pay
caliga, -ae, f = boot out (+ dat)
daemon, -onis, m = spirit, demon scabo, -ere, scabi = to scrape
extendo, -ere, -di, -tum = to stretch out, scholasticus, -a, -um = scholastic,
extend pertaining to a school
Gringotts = Gringotts [a bank] servo, -are, avi, atum = to preserve, protect
Hagrid, -idis, m = Hagrid sonitus, -us, m = sound
Harrius, -i, m = Harry visito, -are, -avi, -atum = to go to see, visit
Londinium, -ii, n = London

Questions for passage D:

1. Identify all the active verbs in this passage and parse them
2. Identify all the accusatives in this passage and parse them