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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. 106-107

1. Translate these sentences::
a) Nicobulus: Don’t threaten me, Chrysalus! Chrysalus: But I’m telling you the matter, master, exactly as it is.
b) The bold slave has a head full of tricks.
c) The slaves are soon coming out of the house and following the old man.
d) But who is talking? [As] I think, it’s Chrysalus.
e) Look inside, my master! What are you seeing in the house? It’s a bad thing, [as] I think.
f) Chrysalus tells his master to be careful and calls him ignorant of everything.
g) Examine (get to know) everything! For I rather want you to remember than to forget.
h) Just as you promise, thus I want the matter to be.
i) What do you think? Look! The slave threatens me, then he lies, then he entreats and begs me.
j) You, my Nicobulus, go ahead and threaten Chrysalus at once!

2. Translate these sentences:
a) Love is an unsuspecting thing. (Ovid)
b) To be silent is a great thing. (Martial)
c) There will be vices as long as (there are) humans. (Tacitus)
d) Human matters are fragile and perishable. (Cicero)
e) It is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland. (Horace)
f) Both to do brave things and to suffer (bravely) is Roman. (Livy)