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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. 136

1. Translate these sentences:
a) Nicobulus called (his) son a young man of no value.
b) Philoxenus, however, regarded the girlfriends only as something good.
c) Nicobulus threatens Bacchis with death unless she releases (his) son.
d) Philoxenus seems to Nicobulus of as much value as a rotten mushroom because he is in love.
e) Bacchis! I order you to embrace that old man. I will embrace this one.
f) Sister! I will act with regard to the old man as you have ordered even though it seems to me to be a great evil to embrace death.
g) The old men, as I believe, will soon both advance to the door.
h) It is as I have said: The old men advance to the door.

2. Translate these sentences:
a) The lowly have a hard time when the mighty disagree (Phaedrus)
b) Divine nature gave (us) fields, human skill built (us) cities. (Varro)
c) For I remember, I remember and I will never forget that night (Cicero)
d) Here, where there is now Rome, the capital of the world, were a tree and grass and a few cattle and a hut few and far between. (Ovid)
e) Religion gave birth to wicked and impious deeds. (Lucretius)
(f) No one is [so-called gnomic perfect] suddenly an utter scoundrel. (Juvenal)