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Elementary Latin II
(LATIN 132)

Professor Ortwin Knorr
Classical Studies Program

 Email: oknorrATwillamette.edu
Phone: x6029
Mailbox: 107 Eaton

Answer Key to the Exercises GVE p. 339

1. Translate:
(a) (Please) go away!
(b) Let us wait!
(c) Let us remain!
(d) Let there be no complaints!
(e) May they not look for a reward!
(f) Let us not die in vain!
(g) Let him (or her) come!
(h) Let us go away!
(i) What should I have said?
(j) What should (shall) I say?
(k) What should he (she) have done?

2. Translate these sentences:
(a) Let us die and let us rush into the middle of the weapons! (Vergil, Aeneid)
(b) Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love! (Catullus 5.1)
(c) Let us not wish for difficult things! (Cicero)
(d) (Please) be careful, my Tiro! (Cicero)
(e) Let us make a man according to our image and likeness, and he shall rule over the fish of the sea. (Genesis)
(f) And God said: "Let there be light!", and it became light. (Genesis)
(g) God also said: " Let there be a firmament in the midlle of the waters, and it shall divide waters from waters!" (Genesis)
(h) Be sensible, strain (your) wines, and cut back long hope by a small space (= bit by bit). (Horace, Odes 1.11.6-7)
(i) What should she do? Should she fight? A woman will be defeated (even if) she fights.
Should she scream? But in (his) right hand was a sword that forbade it. (Ovid, Fasti 2.801-2, rape of Lucretia)
(j) What should I have done when I saw these things, gentlemen of the jury? (Cicero)