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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. 94

1. Translate these sentences:
a) Our old man will give you 200 coins into your hand today.
b) What do you want me to do? For I prefer to help rather than do nothing.
c) If the old man considers (orig.: fut.) me a lier, I will want to make great tricks.
d) I’ll do my job, (and) I prefer you to do yours.
e) You will be able to give 200 coins to your friends if I will be able to take the gold away from the old man.
f) Give me your hand, I entreat you; I will give you mine.
g) If you want to believe/trust a woman, you want to write into running [quick] water.
h) If you will be able to take the gold away from the old man, Chrysalus, I will consider you a slave of great astuteness.
i) While the night is silent, thieves prefer to do bad deeds rather than to sleep.
j) Take the wax, the tablets, and the stylus away from me: Today, I don’t want to write.

2. Translate these sentences:
a) Experience is the best teacher. (Cicero)
b) But who shall guards the guards themselves? (Juvenal)
c) Mortal (human) deeds never escape the notice of the gods. (Ovid)
d) Rage helps lions, fear stags, his vehemence the hawk, and flight (helps) the dove. (Seneca)
e) A great man can come from a hut, a beautiful and great mind, from a misshapen and humble body. (Seneca)
f) No one can be happy without virtue. (Cicero)
g) Without authority, no home nor state can stand. (Cicero)