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Elementary Latin I
(LATIN 131)

Professor Ortwin Knorr
Classical Studies Program

 Email: oknorr@willamette.edu
Phone: x6029
Mailbox: 107 Eaton
Office Hours: W 11:30-12:30 pm
and by appointment, 306 Eaton

Answer Key to the Exercises GVE p. 73

1. Translate into English:
a) Therefore, the bold cook wants to cook a huge dinner.
b) Why do you want to know the names of all cooks?
c) You have, however, a bold plan in mind.
d) When you want to enter the house, call us at once.
e) Every poor man wants to commit bold crimes.
f) A huge crowd of bold men goes to the house of Megadorus.

2. Translate into English:
(a) Many women neither sleep nor cook dinner.
(b) He/she takes away the goods.
(c) You (pl.) want to know everything.
(d) Beautiful men love beautiful women.
(e) All (people) wat to have money.
(f) Many are fleeing, but many are staying.
(g) The rich does not love the poor.
(h) All good (men) take care of citizens.
(i) Bad (men/people) think of bad things.
(j) Money torments everyone (all people).

3. Translate these sentences:
a) Every age (lifetime, generation) is both short (brief) and frail. (Pliny)
b) Old age is an incurable disease. (Seneca)
c) Wrath is a brief madness. (Horace)
d) Man is an animal possessing reason. (Seneca)
e) The way to the happy life is easy. (Seneca)
f) It is difficult not to write satire. (Juvenal)
g) It is difficult to suddenly lay aside a long-lasting love-affair. (Catullus)
h) To change (one’s) nature is indeed difficult. (Seneca)
i) Woman is always something variable and changeable. (Vergil)
j) Something disgraceful (is) an old man soldier, something disgraceful (is) an old man’s (adj.) love / love in an old man. (Ovid)