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Latin I Professor Ortwin Knorr
Reading Exercise/Test
Exercise (b) When Sosia was about
to enter the house of (his) master, Mercury deceived him with (his)
tricks and ruses. For he did not let Sosia enter although Amphitruo
ordered him to tell Alcumena everything at that time. For Mercury
takes care of his own father, that is, Juppiter. For that one deceived
in this house, during this night Alcumena with the appearance of
(her) husband. Mercury, however, made himself similar to Sosia and
with the same looks and the same voice, he took his name. In the
end, Sosia hardly believed Mercury because he believed the god (to
be) very similar to himself [I know this does not
make a whole lot of sense but that's what the Latin in my edition
of the book says]. And the slave thought this the more easily
because the god had the same hat, the same dress, the same stature,
the same feet, the same chin, the same cheeks, the same lips, the
same beard, the same nose, the same neck. In the end it pleased
Sosia (Sosia decided?) to believe himself (to be) Sosia because
he knew himself well.
(LATIN 131)
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Answer
Key to the Exercises GVE p. 175
(a) At this time, my father has entrusted to me a very big job.
For while it pleases him to deceive Alcumena with [here maybe better:
"in"] the appearance of Amphitruo, I am about to drive
away the slave Sosia from the house. So I will go into the street
intending to threaten with my fists death to the slave. With my
astuteness, I will easily deceive him because he seems to me to
be a man of no smarts. At the same time, I will take (his) name
away from him with my ruses. For it will please me to approach him
withthe same appearance and with the same voice.