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Elementary Latin II
(LATIN 132)

Professor Ortwin Knorr
Classical Studies Program

Email: oknorrATwillamette.edu
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Answer Key to the Exercises GVE pp. 203-04

1. Translate these sentences:
a) Cicero asserts that the citizens of Agrigentum have an image (a statue) of Hercules.
b) The citizens of Agrigentum said that Verres was not a good praetor (provincial governor).
or ... denied that Verres was a good praetor
c) There was a rumor that the slaves of that (despicable) man had entered the temple and removed the statue.
d) Cicero said that a certain messenger had reported all this to the citizens of Agrigentum.
e) I (at least) believe that this (despicable) man will always lie to you.
f) Cicero believed that no one would ever do worse crimes than this (despicable) man.
g) Verres sent slaves into temples, took gold away from citizens by force, favored friends even against the law, (and) embraced all (kinds of) crimes.
h) I hear that Verres will report the name of a certain slave.
i) Because Verres did not want to be charged, he ordered a certain friend to lie.
j) I know that Verres was accustomed to accuse innocent people.
k) (Surely) you will never hear of more wicked deeds, gentlemen of the jury, will you?
l) (Surely) Verres is a most wicked man, is he not?
m) I have heard that the citizens of Agrigentum had made an attack on the slaves of Verres.

2. Translate these sentences:
a) Reason teaches that there are gods. (Cicero)
b) The outcome taught that fortune helps the brave. (Livy)
c) I am a man: Nothing human is alien to me/ does not concern me. (Terence Ht. 77)
d) They say that Democritus was never without laughter in public. (Seneca)
e) A young man hopes/expects that he will live long. (Cicero)
f) Glory is something fickle and unstable / a fickle and unstable thing. (Seneca)
g) Recently, the illness of a certain friend reminded me that we are best when we are weak. For avarice and lust, which weak man do they bother? (Pliny)
h) Here, where Rome is now, grew an unfelled forrest,
and such a great thing (i.e., Rome) was pasture for a few cows. (Ovid Fast. 1.243-244)