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Chapter 1
Sententiae
1. Labor calls me.
2. Please advise me, if I err.
3. Make haste, slowly. 欲速则不达
4. You praise me, they blame me.
5. We often sin.
6. What must we think ?
7. Save me.
8. Rumor flies.丑事传千里
9. He (She) doesn't love me.
10. Nothing terrifies me.
11. Apollo often saves me.
12. Hello, what do you see ? We see nothing.
13. You often think nothing.
14. You give twice, if you give quickly.
15. If you are well, I am well.
16. Quid videt ?
17. Nihil dant.
18. Non debes me laudare.
19. Si erro, saepe me monet.
20. Si me amas, amabo te, selva me.
The poet Horace contemplates an invitation
Maecenas and Vergilius call me today. What must I
think ? What must I respond ?
If I err, they often advise and blame me; if
I don't err, they praise me.
What must I think today ?
Chapter 2
Sententiae Antiquae
1. Hello, o fatherland!
2. Rumor and opinion fly.
3. Please give favor to the daughter.
4. Your clemency saves many lives.
5. He carries away much money.
6. You often praise the fortune and lives of the ancient
patriot but refuse it.
7. You order me to avoid crowd.
8. I devote myself to philosophy.
9. Philosophy is an art of life.
10. Conserve the sound form of the life.
11. Excessive anger creates insanity.
12. What do you think ? --- we ought to avoid anger.
13. No avarice is without penalty.
14. He oppresses me with cruel chains.
15. They don't fear the wheel of fortune.
16. Puellae vitam poetae coservant.
17. Sine philosophia saepe erromus et poenam damus.
18. Si patria tua valet, nihil nautas terret et fortunam magnam
tuam laudare debes.
19. Saepe poenam irrae videmus.
20. Portae antiquae est magnae.
Catullus bids his girlfriend farewell
My girl doesn't love me. Good-bye, girl! Catullus is tough:
the poet doesn't love the girl, doesn't praise the fortune of the
girl, doesn't give roses to the girl, and doesn't kiss the girl!
My anger is big! I am tough, my girl, --- but without you I
am not well.
Chapter 3
Practice and review
1. We see the son of the Roman sailor in the
fields.
2. The boys call the girls today.
3. My daughter always praises the wisdom of your friends.
4. Many men and women preserve the ancient philosophy.
5. If anger is superior, o my sons, we often err and pay
penalty.
6. The goddes of fortune loves great men.
7. The farmer gives money to the daughters.
8. Sine paucis amicis vita non valet.
9. Hodie famas multas in patria tua habes.
10. Fortunam magnam in vitis filiarum tuarum, amice me,
videmus.
11. Semper filias meas et fili mei rosas dat.
Sententiae Antiquae
1. You ought to think, friends, about the people of
Roma.
2. Mecenas, a friend of Augustus, has me in the
number(circle) of
friends.
3. My little book and my sentences give advice to the lives
of men.
4. Few people are eager for wisdom.
5. Adverse fortune does not terrify the man of great
wisdom.
6. Cimon, the man of great fame, has great
benevolence.
7. Avaricious man is always in need.
8. Any abundance of money does not satisfies avaricious
man.
9. Money irritates avaricious man, and does not satisfy
him.
10. Advice to friends in secret, and praise them openly.
11. We ought to keep moderation.
The grass is always greener.
The farmer often praises both the life and the fortune of the
sailor;
The sailor often praises the great fortune and the life of the
poet;
and the poet praises the life and the farms of the farmer.
Without philosophy, avaricious men always think about money:
they have
much money, but much money does not satisfy avaricious man.
Chapter 4
1. Leisure is good, but the leisure of many men is
little.
2. Wars are bad, but they have much dangers.
3. Duty today calls the sailor from the leisure.
4. Few men see many forms of danger in money--we ought not to be avaricious.
5. If you have much money, you are often not without
anxieties.
6. The girls advice the teacher about the bad plan without
delay.
7. O great poet, we are true friends; please help me !
8. He sees the
farmer's woman and fields and
gate.
9. In periculo magno es.
10. Sententiae filii mei saepe stultae sunt.
11. Filiae et filii magnorum virorum non semper sunt magni.
12. Sine consilio fortuna bona nautarum nihil est et poenas
dant.
Sententiae Antiquae
1. The goddess of fortune is blind.
2. If the danger is true, you are unfortunate man.
3. How are you, o friend, you are a good man.
4. The fame of your son is not good.
5. To err is human.
6. Nobody is wholly happy.
7. The remedy of anger is time.
8. Good Daphnis, my friend, loves the leisure and the life
of the farmer.
9. The professors often gives to the small boys cookies and
gifts.
10. I love my girl friend more than my eyes.
11. Hello, my good girl, please give me many kisses.
12. The infinity is the number of the foolish men.
13. The duty calls me.
14. Bad men are in our number and think about the destruction of
good men.
Help the good people; conserve the people
of Roma.
The rarity of friendship
Few men have true friends, and few people are worthy. The
real friendship is
remarkable, and all splendid things are rare. Many stupid
people think always
about money, few think about friends; but they are wrong: we can be
well without
much money, but without friends we are not well and the life is
nothing.
Chapter 5
1. Duty was always calling the free men.
2. Will we have many men and women of high sprits ?
3. The dangers of war is not small, but your patriot will
call you and the farmers
will help you.
4. Because of the faults of the bad men our fatherland will
not be well.
5. The delay was surpassing our high sprits and we did not
have the remedy.
6. Many men stayed yesterday in the fields and they helped
the Romans.
7. Few men used to think about the care of sprits.
8. You are in the faults on account of anger and you will
pay the penalty
tomorrow.
9. You do not have the real free time, stupid man !
10. Nothing is without fault; we are good men, (even) if we have a
few (faults).
11. The poet used to give many roses, beautiful gifts, and kisses
to the
girl-friend.
12. Bellum et exitiumne semper in patria nostra remanebunt ?
13. Pecuniane avarum satit ?
14. Famam, igitur, puerorum stultorum nostrorum conservabis.
15. Pecunia et gloria animum boni superabant.
SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
1. You will not endure the dislike of the Roman
people.
2. Did the danger therefore remain yesterday ?
3. Narrow sprit loves money.
4. Overcome your spirit and anger.
5. The fault is mine, o friends.
6. Give favor to our son and daughters.
7. On account of the youth, my sons, you were not seeing the
bad of life.
8. Please take care of my daughter.
9. Human life is a punishment.
10. Are you sound enough ?
11. If I will ever have enough (amount) of money, then I will
devote myself to
wisdom and philosophy.
12. Your glory and fame will always remain.
13. The good and skillful man will blame the rough words of the
poets.
HIS ONLY GUEST WAS A REAL BOAR!
Tite, he, Caecilianus does not dine without our boar:
He, Caecilianus has a charming dinner-guest.
THERMOPYLAE: A SOLDIER'S HUMOR
'Our army is great', Persicus says, 'and because of our huge number
of arrows
you will not see the sky!' Lacedaemonius then responds: 'In
shadow, therefore,
we will fight!' And Leonidas, the king of Spartans, shouts: 'Fight
with courage,
Spartans; today we will perhaps dine among ghosts!'
Chapter 6
Practice and review
1. Our eyes were not working well; we could not see,
therefore, the pretty fields.
2. Without much money and gifts the tyrant will not be able
to satisfy the Roman people.
3. They could not, therefore, advice you of the penalty of
your friends yesterday.
4. Very small number of Greeks will be able to remain there
tomorrow.
5. The teacher will call the bad boys without delay.
6. Your girls were often thinking of the books of the great
poet.
7. When will we have enough (amount) of wisdom ?
8. Many ancient books were great because of wisdom and
advice.
9. The glory of good books will always remain.
10. Can money and leisure conquer the anxieties of human life
?
11. Quare non semper possumus vitia vera tyranni videre.
12. Pauci viri liberi tyrannum tolerare poterunt.
13. Multi Romani libros magnos graecorum antiquorum
laudabant.
14. Ubi gloria famaque perpetuae esse possunt.
SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
1. Dionysius was at that time a tyrant of Syracusans.
2. Do you wish to taste my life and fortune ?
3. Can we , o gods, be safe in bad plots and in great
destruction ?
4. You will not be in continuous danger because of my
care.
5. An account of your faults many men blame you and nothing
can now delight you
in your country.
6. The fortune of Carthaginian at (of) the second war was
varied.
7. The patriot of Romans was full of Greek books and
beautiful statues.
8. Without gods and goddess in heaven the sprit cannot be
sound.
9. If the sprit is weak, it will not be able to tolerate
good fortune.
10. Where the laws are strong, free citizen can be well
there.
I DO NOT LOVE THEE, DOCTOR FELL
I do not love you Sabidi, and I cannot say why, either.
I can only say this: 'I do not love you.'
THE HITORIAN LIVY LAMENTS THE DECLINE OF ROMAN MORALS
The Roman people used to have great sprits and few faults.
We used to think of our duties and were always praising the glory
of the war.
But now, we have much leisure, and many of us are avaricious.
And we can tolerate
neither our fault nor remedy.
Chapter 7
1. You were reading yesterday the second letter of the
student and
then were thinking of the words.
2. The ladies will warn to the citizen about the ambush and
the bad destruction
without delay.
3. The king and the queen therefore will not dare to stay
there tomorrow.
4. The character of the Greeks was not without faults and
vices.
5. When will men have enough virtue ?
6. Your bodies are sound and the spirits are full of
wisdom.
7. We will not have the real peaces on account of the human
characters.
8. Will the state be able to overcome risks of our era
?
9. After the war, they saw many books about the peace and
the remedies of the war.
10. We can see the duties and the wisdom with the eyes of
spirit.
11. Sine moribus sanis pacem habere non possumus.
12. Multi discipuli tempus parvum litteris Graecis habebant.
13. Post tempora mala virtus vera multus laborque civitatem
iuvabunt.
14. Filiae amicorum tuorum ibi heri cenabant.
SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
1. I am a human.
2. Nothing is new under the sun.
3. I sing now the new songs about the youthfulness for the
girls and boys.
4. You praise the fortune and the character of ancient
common people.
5. The good men hate to sin because of their love for
virtue.
6. You dare to be good under the harsh prince and the bad
times.
7. Foolish people often gives honor to unworthy men.
8. We always see the names of foolish people on walls of
building and on gates.
9. The free time without books is equal to the death.
10. Many nations can tolerate the servitude. Our citizen
cannot.
The recovery of liberty is noble.
11. Life gives nothing to the mortal (=human) without great
effort.
12. How can we be in perpetual peace and be safe and free ?
13. Be the glory to God in the highest and on the earth the peace
to the people
of good will.
CATULLUS DEDICATES HIS POETRY BOOK
Cornelius, the man of great wisdom, I shall give you a new
beautiful book.
Cornelius, my friend, you always praise my books, and you are the
master
of the literature ! Therefore, please have my new work: the fame of
the
book (and your fame) will be perpetual.
Chapter 8
1. Our times are now bad; our faults are big.
2. Why does my sister write a letter to your wife ?
3. The tyrant will lead the stupid people from your
land.
4. When will be enough reason and sprits in men ?
5. Abundunce of real virtue could overcome many
faults.
6. We were spending the youth in the free state.
7. We never ought to tolerate the bad king.
8. After little delay we shall write many words about the
plots of many
stupid writers.
9. Corpus ibi sub terra remanebit.
10. Scribe (sing.) or Scribite (pl.) multa de gloria civitatis
nostrae ?
11. Ratio semper reginam vestram ad virtutem agit ?
12. Semper ibi nomina Graecorum videbimus.
SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
1. My brother will spend the life in leisure.
2. Come, come, help me ! Lead me to my second son.
3. O friend, we destroy the liberty.
4. I will clarify the new dangers to the Roman people.
5. We shall never conquer the risk without risk.
6. I can demonstrate the right way to men out of my
errors.
7. Catullus thanks a lot to Marcus Tullius Cicero.
8. The extraordinary beauty of the virgin attracts the eyes
of men.
9. Agamemnon will lead the big troops from the Greek state
to Troy, and he will
kill many men there.
10. The love of praise attracts men.
11. Caesar will conserve the author of the peace.
12. I cannot write poems among much care and toil.
13. While you declaim in a big city, my friend, I re-read the
writing of
the Troyan war in leisure.
14. We learn not for life, but for school.
15. Men learn while they teach.
16. The reason leads me, not the fortune.
CICERO ON THE ETHICS OF WAGING WAR
The state ought not to carry on war without good reason nor on
account of anger.
If we will be able to defend the fortune and the fields and the
lives of our
people without war, then we will have to conserve the peace;
If, however, we will not be able to conserve our patriot and libety
without war,
war will be necessary. We always ought to still demonstrate
great duties in war,
and big mercy after the victory.
Chapter 9
1. This whole book always praises the Roman
literature.
2. These men were therefore giving thanks to those goddess
yesterday.
3. I will now write that thing about the vices of your Queen
and that queen will
pay the penalty.
4. Neither will give then to the other man enough amount of
money.
5. Can the glory of any country be perpetual ?
6. The labor of one man could never conquer those
troops.
7. The characters of your writer were too much bad.
8. No teacher, nevertheless, dared to teach the true things
under such man.
9. Will the peace in our fatherland be strong after this
victory ?
10. While those men remain there, some do nothing, and others
learn.
11. Cicero de gloria alterius et uxoris scribat.
12. Tota civitas soli frateri huius gratias agebat.
13. Propter istam virtutem illi nullas copias in haec loca cras
ducent.
14. Poteritne uter liber vitia horum temporum superare.
SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
1. Where can I see now those women ?
2. This man will lead that girl into the marriage.
(This man will marry that girl.)
3. I give a palm branch to this plan.
4. We love truly the virtue of that man.
5. Only you can help this man.
6. The penalty of such one man will relieve this disease of
the sate but
the danger will always remain.
7. These men think truly about the destruction of this state
and of the
whole world.
8. No place is to either person in this land.
9. Not only the result teaches this man --- such man is the
teacher
of fools! --- but also the reason.
WHEN I HAVE ... ENOUGH !
Africanus keeps millions, nevertheless hunts for legacies.
The goddess of fortune gives too much to many people, but gives to
no one enough.
If you wish to devote yourself to philosophy and spirit, this study
cannot be
strong without frugality. This frugality is voluntary
poverty.
Take away, therefore, such executions: 'I still do not have enough
money. If I will
ever have such `abundance` of money, I will then give the whole of
myself to
philosophy.' Begin now to devote yourself to philosophy,
not to money.
Chapter10
1. What do the pupils have to learn today ?
2. The brothers were performing nothing with the
reason.
3. That man always dares to teach great virtue of labor and
study,
4. This man was writing about old age; that man, about love;
and another about
the liberty.
5. We used to demonstrate the nature of these plots from the
books of one man.
6. Such men only love the victory too much, neither they
think about peace.
7. Where will the state hear of any men of great wisdom
?
8. Come from those lands in this safe place with your
friends.
9. We could find the sister of that man after few
hours.
10. Your troops will never capture either of the two men
there.
11. The other Greek will find the remedy of this sickness.
12. The songs of this writer are full not only of truth but also of
virtue.
13. Ad terram vestram sine ullis amicis tum veniemus.
14. Dum vivebat, tamen, nullam pacem habere petramus.
15. Tota civitas haec vitia nunc fugit et semper fugiet.
16. Reginae, igitur, et toti populo gratias aget.
SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
1. Avoid the desire for money and glory.
2. I will accomplish my duty.
3. Your fortune and the life of your daughter will tomorrow
come into danger.
4. Life is not to live, but to be well.
5. I always begin to speak with great fear.
6. If you will lead me, Muse, I shall take the crown with
great praise.
7. Live in minding death; time flies.
8. Snatch, friends, an opportunity from time.
9. Few people come to the old age.
10. But it flies, meanwhile time flies.
11. The Fates will find the way.
12. The nature makes good men, not rank.
13. Compliance produces friends, truth produces hate.
THE INCOMPARABLE VALUE OF FRIENDSHIP
Nothing can compare with friends; The gods give to human nothing
better.
Some prefer money, the sound body, others fame and glory;
others prefer pleasure --- but these men were too much, since those
are uncertain
and come out of fortune, not out of wisdom. The friendships
come truly from
wisdom and love and characters, without the virtue the friendship
cannot live.
If you do not have any friend, you have the life of a tyrant; if
you will be
able to find true friend, your life will be happy.
Chapter 11
1. They were sending him to her with another farmer
yesterday,
2. You, however, love now his beautiful daughter.
3. Because of the friendship, I do this. What will
you do, my friend ?
4. Will you dare to send the same letters to him tomorrow
?
5. Please lead me to his pupil (to her pupil).
6. We will thank to him very much after his work.
7. Do you demonstrate the virtue in his book ?
8. Dare to be, therefore, always the same.
9. Does the nature of our habit come only from us ?
10. As long as the reason leads us, we shall be well and the many
men will
perform well.
11. We find that fear in this one man.
12. Without labor, however, no peace will come in their
lands.
13. The zeal for not only money but also for pleasure will draw men
too much;
some can conquer those desire, some
cannot.
14. Vita eius erat semper cara toti populo.
15. Eos et amicos eorum mecum in hoc loco saepe invenias.
16. Nos autem nunc copias eorum in hac via capiemus.
17. Quoniam eadem ei de te et aliis sororibus eorum dicebam, frater
tuus non
audiebat.
SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
1. Your virtue makes me a friend to you.
2. It only is dear to me.
3. If you are well, it is well; I am well.
4. It is good to me because it is good to you.
5. Good bye! And you, be well.
6. What do these men feel now about you ?
7. All men think the same thing.
8. I see no man among them to be friendly to you
today.
9. People could see the head of Cicero in Rostra.
10. All men do not love the same woman nor have the same desire and
eagerness.
11. I can live neither with you nor without you.
12. The true friend is the second self.
CICERO DENOUNCES CATILINE IN THE SENATE
What are you doing, Catilina ? What are you thinking ? We
feel the great
vice and plots of you. O what time! O what manner! The
senate understands these,
the consul sees. This man is still living. Living ? He also
comes to the senate; he also
dares to do judgment; the eyes are designating our death! And we,
good men,
are doing nothing ! The senate and the consul ought to lead
you to your death,
Catalina. We have a plan and we ought to do; if we do not
do now, we, we, openly
to say, err! Go away now, Catilina, and lead your friends
with you.
You cannot remain with us; I shall not tolerate you, and your
people,
and your plan.
Chapter 12
1. You have then written to us about the pleasures of
youth.
2. The judgments of the other daughter were not the same
yesterday.
3. Nobody had fled out of either gate in this way.
4. Those men, however, have recently come to us with his
doctor.
5. Those young men were often coming to us because of the
friendship.
6. We have noticed the same fear in that consul.
7. After a few hours Caesar has captured the Asia
Minor.
8. This beautiful woman only has felt the big desire of
peace.
9. Were you able to spend the good life without any
liberality ?
10. The virtue was to total population dear.
11. Neither doctor had heard the name of the father.
12. Illa regina amica ibi non diu remansit.
13. Matres nostrae naturam loci illius non intellexerant.
14. Nullam autem culpam in capiti patriae nostrae
inveneramus.
15. Eam ad eum mecum mittebant.
SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
1. In the beginning god has created heaven and earth; and
god has created human.
2. In the triumphal procession Caesar has displayed this
placard:
'I have come, seen, won.'
3. I have lived well as long as I have lived.
4. Young man wishes to live long; old man has lived
long.
5. That man has not lived long, but have been long.
6. Whee! You have spoken fine!
7. Sophocles has made tragedies until extremely old
age.
8. Those men have poured not only money but also life for
the fatherland.
9. From the beginning the kings have had the Roma; Luius
Brutus has given liberty
to roman people.
10. Under Caesar, however, we have lost liberty.
11. When the liberties have fallen, nobody will dare to say
freely.
PLINY WRITES TO MARCELLINUS ABOUT THE DEATH OF FUNDANUS'
DAUGHTER
Hello, Marcelline! I write this to you about Fundano, about
our friend;
He has lost his dare beautiful daughter. That girl has not
lived for 13 years,
but the nature had given to her great wisdom. She was
always loving mother and
father, brothers and sisters, us and other friends, the male
teachers and female
teachers, and we were loving and praising her. The doctors
could not make her well.
Since this girl, however, has had the great spirit, she has
tolerated too bad
sickness with patience. Now, my friends, send to our
Fundano letter about the
severe fortune of his daughter. Bye!
DIAULUS STILL BURIES HIS CLIENTS
Formerly he was a doctor, now he is a undertaker Diaulus.
Chapter 13
1. The consuls were joining themselves neither with you nor
with those other men.
2. The total Roman people have lost the liberty.(verb:
amiito, not amo)
3. The bad king has never been able to capture me myself
truly.
4. You have fled to their father and mother through that
place of you.
5. The Gods create the spirits and they send them into human
bodies from the sky.
6. They themselves have recently conquered them in Asia
minor by themselves.
7. Cicero has seen his doctor on this road, not of
himself.
8. Nobody have been able to love the bitter son of the
consul himself for a long
time.
9. These men have joined Cicero himself with them, for they
had always esteemed
him.
10. The ladies had sent their own letters before that time.
11. Those men have had good old age, for they had lived good.
12. The mother has understood the son well, and the young man has
thanked to her
in return for patience.
13. Illi adulescentes, autem, ad Caesarum ipsum heri
venerunt.
14. Cicero, igitur, nomen eius cum suo numquam iunget.
15. Cicero semper se dilexit et etiam te diligis.
16. Cicero liberos suos laudabat et nunc libros meos laudo.
17. Consul Cicero ipse librum eius numquam viderat.
SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
1. He himself was hastening to him and he has sent the
horseman before himself.
2. They themselves could do nothing by themselves without
him.
3. He himself has recognized his own sign and his own
letters from the beginning.
4. Each one own has loved himself, because each one by
itself is dear for
himself.
5. Wise man corrects himself out of the faults of other men.
6. Withdraw in you yourself.
7. The sprit itself nourishes its own.
8. Learned man has always wealth in himself.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE POWER OF LITERATURE
The great that Alexander used to have many writers of his facts
with himself.
He in fact has once stand in front of the tomb of Achilles and has
said this
word:
'You have been fortunate, o young man, for you have found the Homer
as the
praiser of your virtue.' And truely! For, without that
Ilias, the same tomb
was able to bury his body and the name. Nothing can conserve human
body,
but the great literature can conserve the name of great men.
THE AUTHORITY OF A TEACHER'S OPINION
The good teachers ought not to say to pupils always their own
thoughts.
The pupils of Pythagoras were often telling in debates:
'He himself has said!' Pythagoras, their teacher of
philosophy, was 'himself':
His sentences also have had power without reason. In
philosophy, however,
only the reason, not the sentences, ought to be strong.
Chapter 14
1. He was capturing the great part of those cities after
many years by the power
and by wisdom.
2. We have rushed in front of the eyes of Caesar himself
across the road
and have fled with friends.
3. Nobody sees the fault of one's self, but each one sees
the fault of the other.
4. Does he have recently advised them about the forces of
those cities in Asia
Minor ?
5. They themselves, however, had supported the liberty of
their own citizens
with the great care.
6. We have drawn the names of many cities of us from those
of ancient cities.
7. A part of the citizens have taken the wealth and they
have run through the city
to sea.
8. Many clouds in heaven today are the sign of keen anger of
gods.
9. That animal fell there yesterday and he was drawing
himself from the farm over
the earth.
10. Ille tyrannus malus iura horum civium non diu servavit.
11. Magna vis artium est.
12. Uxor eius ibi cum amicis suis stabat et illa patientia
agebat.
13. Cicero idem de vita sua et de natura mortis sensit et
dixit.
SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
1. And the god has called the water sea in the
beginning.
2. He has created at that time the land itself with humans
and animals.
3. The god of Pan saves sheep and the lucky teachers of
sheept.
4. Small ant carries the big load with mouths.
5. I keep the wolf by catching his ears.
6. That man holds the big crows of clients with
himelf.
7. No one could overwhelm this man neither with force nor
with money.
8. His spirit was ignorant of bad arts.
9. The great part of me will avoid the death.
10. You, friends doctors, study the model of Greek always
carefully.
11. We conduct the great things not with power nor with swiftness
of the bodies,
but with wisdom and thought and
technique.
12. Such men change the heaven, not the spirit of themselves, if
they move
trans the ocean.
STORE TEETH
Thais has black teeth, Laecania has snowy white teeth.
What is the reason ?
This lady (Laecania) has bought them, that lady's(Thais) are her
own.
CICERO IMAGINES THE STATE OF ROME ITSELF URGING HIM TO
PUNISH THE CATILINARIAN CONSPIRATORS
M. Tulli Cicero, what are you doing ? Those men ought to
pay the penalty
on account of many bad acts, you ought to lead them truly to death,
because they had drawn Roma into great danger. Roman people
had often
punished truly citizens with death in this state. But you
ought not to
think these bad men to be citizens, for the betrayers had never
kept the laws
of the citizens in this city; those men had lost their own
lows.
The people of Roma thanks there a lot, M. Tulli, if you will now
punish
such men with courage.
Chapter 15
1. These five women were not fearing the death among those
animals.
2. Two sons were running yesterday from the gate through the
field with their
own father and had fallen into sea.
3. The first king has thrown the wealth into the sea, for he
has feared
the great anger and the forth of the
crowd.
4. No one will conquer the same part of the Asian Minor
within a year.
5. The roman people had joined the four cities of them with
the first road.
6. Therefore you have sent thousand books of them from the
city across Italia.
7. We have preserved the liberty and the rights of these
cities with the
arts of war.
8. The gods of Greek were often not conducting themselves
among the humans
with virtue.
9. Cicero used to lead thousand Roman people with the power
of his own sentences.
10. The words of the doctor had never made them dear to me.
11. Tyrannus vitam suam illis tribus amicorum committebat.
12. Vir avarus numquam satis divitiarum habet.
13. Eo tempore mater earum sex litteris conservimus.
14. Per amicos suos cives decem urbium vincerunt.
SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
1. For a long time I have been in that ship and was always
expecting the death
on account of storm and clouds.
2. Within seven hours we come to that city.
3. Italia was in these times with plenty of Greek arts, and
many Romans themselves
were pursuing these studies.
4. They were hesitating between war and peace.
5. I was throwing out such men from the city at that
time.
6. Each miserable man was saying: 'I am a citizen of
Roma.'
7. My daughter was loving her own sparrow, and the sparrow
was chirping always
only to her and was not moving itself from
her lap.
8. My sons were loving my father, and were avoiding me; they
were calling me
as a harsh father and were expecting my
death. Now, therefore, I have
changed my habits and I will draw two sons
to me tomorrow.
9. A tyrant, Dionysius, since he was fearing to entrust the
head to barber,
he has taught his own daughters to cut
hairs and to shave beard;
therefore the virgins were cutting hair and
shaving beard of the father.
CTRUS' DYING WORDS ON IMMORTALITY
O my three sons, you ought not to be miserable. I now truly
come to death,
but the part of me, my spirit, will always remain. While I
was with you,
you were not seeing the spirit, but from the acts of me you were
noticing
the sprit to be in this body. Believe, therefore, the spirit to be
the same
after death, and also if you will not see the spirit, always
preserve me even
in your memory.
Quintus Favius Maximus was also in the old age a man of true
courage and he was
performing wars with the spirits of young men. About him
our friend Ennius, that
skilled poet, has once written these words: 'One man has saved our
lucky citizens
with 'delaying strategy'. He was not placing the rumors and fames
before the
safety of Roma. His glory, therefore, is now well and shall
always be well.
Chapter 16
1. Strong men and women were living before our age.
2. He was sending those hundred miserable old men yesterday
from Italy over
the difficult ocean.
3. Those tow men have thrown out all desires from
themselves, for they have
feared the nature of body.
4. A powerful queen, since she has loved herself, she has
avoided those three
men and has never joined herself with
them.
5. I was, therefore, standing there among them and I was
expecting the signs with
strong spirit for a long time.
6. The rapid rumor was running through mouths and ears
without delay.
7. The force of the severe war, however, has changed his
life in a few hours.
8. Five men from sailor have drawn themselves from the water
and they have
entrusted themselves to powerful
Caesar.
9. Caesar could not join his own troops with speedy troops
of the king.
10. Themistocles was calling all citizens at that time and he was
keeping their
names with keen memory.
11. There are many clouds in heaven and the animals of the farmer
are not well
by the bad weather.
12. Pater materque saepe cum duobus dulcibus filiabus suis ad urbem
veniebant.
13. Animi virorum feminarumque fortium horas difficiles numquam
timebunt.
14. Intellegitque nunc omnia iura horum quattuor virorum ?
15. Medicus filiam forte adiuvale non poterat, nam mors celeris
erat.
SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
1. How sweet the liberty is !
2. The labor has conquered all.
3. The goddess of fortune helps brave men.
4. How quick and keen is the mind !
5. Polyphemus was a horrible, formless, huge monster.
6. A fickle and changeable thing is always a woman.
7. It is easy to write a epigram well, but is difficult to
write a book.
8. Anger is short madness; rule the spirit.
9. The art of the poet cannot be spoken in every
points.
10. Nothing is in every part happy.
11. My book nourishes the human with wise counsel.
12. The mother of all good arts is wisdom.
13. Clemency makes king safe; for the love of all citizens is
impregnable
defense of the king.
14. Life is short; art is long.
15. Short time of life, however, is long enough to good
living.
16. He lives and will live through memory of all centuries.
JUVENAL EXPLAINS HIS IMPULSE TO SATIRE
Shall I always be a listener ? There is a crowd of poets in
this city.
I shall therefore be a poet! There are millions of vices in
the city.
I shall write about these vices! It is difficult not to write a
satire.
If the nature cannot help me, the indignation makes a verse.
There will be in my book all facts of humans---fear, anger,
pleasure, fault,
desire, plots. It is now many troops of vices in this
miserable city of Roma!
ON A TEMPERAMENTAL FRIEND
Difficult and easy, pleasant and bitter -- you are both:
I cannot live with you nor without you.
Chapter 17
1. The force of the art is also powerful, which they do not
always sustain.
2. They began, however, to join miserable men with
themselves.
3. For in that age a part of the population in Italia has
never kept the law
of citizens.
4. We begin to understand the truth, which always ought to
rule our mind and
without which we cannot be well.
5. How difficult it is to draw good nor sweet thing from war
!
6. A hundred men from the men were fearing the death for a
long time and
were expecting nothing of clemency.
7. The boy was fearing his mother, who used to neglect
him.
8. That lady has managed herself with wisdom among all
dangers.
9. A rapid rumor of severe death, therefore, has run through
huge cities,
10. Since the memory of our achievements is sweet, we are now happy
and we pass
the old age safely.
11. Many listener were fearing severe satires which the poet was
reading aloud.
12. Viros potentes timuerunt quorum urbem vi rexerunt.
13. Tres illas feminas iucundas quibus amicitiam nostram dederamus
adiuvale coepimus.
14. Timemus illum librum quo libertatem nostram delere
incipit.
SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
1. Be well, my friend, to whom I entrusted my son
yesterday,
2. Dionysius, about whom I have told, was sailing from Greek
to Silia
through the bad weather.
3. Many citizens do not see either their danger which
overhangs nor neglects those
which they see.
4. He gives twice who gives quickly.
5. He who has began has the half of the achievement.
Begin!
6. Fortune is fancy: it demands back quickly what it has
given.
7. Fortune makes him stupid whom she loves too much.
8. Not only fortune itself is blind but also it makes them
blind whom she
always helps.
9. He has conquered twice who has conquered himself in
victory.
10. Pretense deletes the truth, without which the name of
friendship cannot be well.
11. I have loved truly the virtue of that man, which has not
perished with the body.
12. Avoid crowd. Live with these men who can make you
better;
Admit those whom you can make better.
ON THE PLEASURES OF LOVE IN OLD AGE
Is the love (still existing) in old age ? Pleasure is in
fact less, but desire is
also less. Nothing, however, is anxiety of us, if we do not
desire, and he does
not lack who does not desire. Young men desire too much;
old men always have enough
love and much wisdom. I think, therefore, this time of life
to be pleasant.
IT'S ALL IN THE DELIVERY
The little book which you read aloud is mine, o Fidentine;
but you read badly, it begins to be yours!
Chapter 18
1. Many men are terrified too much by death and also by easy
thing.
2. The beautiful memory of the sweet friendship will never
be destroyed.
3. That blind woman has also understood all kinds of arts
and was being
always praised by pleasant friends.
4. Your old aged father, by whom we were often being helped,
began yesterday to
tell many things about rapid dangers of
huge sea.
5. The minds of us are moved quickly by the strong memory of
those two facts.
6. The plans of the queen was being destroyed by that long
third war by
difficult things.
7. The mother, therefore, was expecting death of the fourth
son, who was not
being well and whose life was short.
8. We never carried on difficult wars without wisdom and
clemency.
9. He will tomorrow draw you to Caesar with nine men from
other miserable men.
10. They have thrown out the fierce king, who had neglected the
duties,
from their own city.
11. That poet has written about the avaricious men who wish to sail
to the
center of other land because he had desired
too much money
in the third book of satires.
12. Clementia ab eis etiam civibus aliarum urbium dabitur.
13. Multi nimis saepe pecunia sed non veritate moventur.
14. Civitas ab rege potenti delebitur, qeum terrere
incipiunt.
15. Illae decem feminae consiliis illius generis levis non
terrebantur.
SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
1. They are possible because they are being seen to be
possible.
2. Even powerful men are often terrified by sudden
dangers.
3. Your wisdoms are clear to us; you are being held by the
knowledge
of these whole citizens.
4. It is the bad plan which cannot be changed.
5. It is right to be taught by an enemy.
6. At that time there were contests in the Circle, by which
kind of trivial
spectacle I am never stretched.
7. This is now my life: I admit and greet good men who come
to me; then I
write or I read; after this all time is
given to the body.
8. The death is, therefore, nothing, since the nature of the
spirit is
being considered to be mortal.
9. The love cannot be mixed with fear.
10. In fact the rashness is never intermingled with the wisdom.
11. We shall love that who is not moved by money.
12. He is praised by these men; and is blamed by those men.
13. The honesty is praised --- and is neglected.
ON DEATH AND METAMORPHOSIS
O human kind, who fears too much death! Why do you fear the danger
of death?
All things are changed, all things flow, nothing comes to real
death.
The spirit wanders and is mixed in another body; neither the spirit
remains,
nor it keeps the same form, but it is changed in new forms.
The life is a river;
our times flee and are always new. Our bodies are always
being changed;
what we have been or we are now, tomorrow we will be not.
Chapter 19
1. Who began to destroy the liberty of them at that
time?
2. Whose liberty have been destroyed then by that
author?
3. Which good books has the blind poet recited
yesterday?
4. The women will read the difficult books tomorrow which
you have sent.
5. All rivers flow into the sea and they are mixed with
it.
6. Therefore we never desire that kind of trivial games to
ourselves, which was
praised by many families.
7. The boys and the girls have been praised by their mothers
and fathers
on account of good things.
8. Why were those men fearing the truth, by which many men
had been helped?
9. The enemy has then sailed over the huge river into
Greek.
10. Which strong and bright man, about which you have read, was
expecting
the short life and the rapid death ?
11. Which heavy studies always delight you, or which do you wish
now ?
12. Quis sex viros qui paraverant vidit ?
13. Quid a discipulo secundo heri neglectum est?
14. Addiuti sumus a scientia quae ab eo neglecta erat.
15. Cuius consilia senes ominium civium timuerunt?
Quae consilia dilexerunt?
1. What is the nature of the spirit? It is mortal.
2. That argument has been seen both serious and sure.
3. What do we ought to do against those people and against
their crimes?
4. What do I have done? Into what danger do I have
been thrown?
5. O gods of immortal! In what city are we living?
Which state do we have?
Which crimes do we see?
6. Who are good citizens except those who keep the benefit
of the patriot in
memory?
7. Other things, which are obtained by money, have been
obtained by that
stupid man; but his character could not
obtain true friends.
THE AGED PLAYWRIGHT SOPHOCLES HOLDS HIS OWN
How much do the old men keep in mind?
If heavy study and labor and honesty remain in the old age, memory,
knowledge and wisdom often remain, too.
Sophocles, a writer of that Greek, up to extreme old age he
has made tragedies;
but on account of this study he has been seen to neglect the family
and he was called
by sons into judgment. Then the author has recited his
tragedy 'Oedipus at Colonus',
which he has held with himself and which he had written shortly
before.
When that tragedy has been recited, the old man has been freed by
the votes of
judgments.
CATULLUS BIDS A BITTER FAREWELL TO LESBIA
How are you girl? now Catullus is hard.
...
Wicked, woe to you! What life does remain to you ?
Who will visit to you now ? To whom will you be seen
pretty?
Whom will you love now? To whom will you bite the lips
?
Mind you, Catulle, to be resolved and be hard.
MESSAGE FROM A BOOKCASE
If you do not give me carefully chosen books, I admit savage
bookworms and
cockroaches.
Chapter 20
1. The old men are also often lack of the fruits of wisdom
and of the advices of
reliable arguments.
2. Either huge mountains or rapid rivers which were flowing
from the mountains
were keeping the enemy from the city.
3. Since he was conducting too much brave acts, his life was
short.
4. That magician (or doctor) could do many things by the
right hand but few things
by the left hand.
5. The truth will soon liberate us from heavy fear by which
we have been
terrified.
6. By which kinds of harmful crimes do those two citizens
have been erased ?
7. What mortal man is able to be happy without friendship
and honesty and
kindness ?
8. The father began to move money from Greek into his own
country, for he has
desired move the family away.
9. By whom does the study of difficult arts have
been neglected at that time ?
10. Where the verses of those authors have been clearly read, the
listeners have
been delighted.
11. They have thrown themselves to the knees of the judges who,
however, have
demonstrated no clemency.
12. Fructus paxis non habere potemus, nisi ipsi familias nostras
metu gravi caremus.
13. Illae manus virorum miserorum et feminarum miserarum ad nos
venient
ab patriis alteris in quibus beneficiis
civitatium carent.
14. Senes neque ludis neque studiis gravibus carent.
15. Qui metus nostras communes scelelis gravis sentire
coepit?
SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
1. The horns defends a stag form dangers.
2. Oedipus have deprived himself from two eyes.
3. Themistocles has freed the Greek people from the
servitude in Persian war.
4. Demosthenes used to pronounce many verses with one
breath.
5. I hate Persian equipments.
6. That man lacks of common sense.
7. The old age deprives us from all pleasures and is not far
away from death.
8. No accuser lacks of blame; we all have sinned.
9. No part of life can be free from duty.
10. The first virtue is to be free from crime.
11. The man to be free from crime does not lack of neither javelin
nor bow.
12. Great uprisings were stirring the city at that time.
13. The letters to the senate and to the people of Allobroges had
been written
by the handwritings of the conspirators
themselves.
CICERO URGES CATILINE'S DEPARTURE FROM ROME
We have the senate's decree against you, Catilina, violent and
heavy one;
we have a severe judgment, and our state has power and wisdom.
What is,
Catilina? Why are you remaining? O immortal gods! Go away
now from this city
with bad criminal handwriting; you will free me from great anxiety,
if you will
lead out all of those conspirators with you. If you don not
go away now,
we shall soon throw you out. Nothing in our state can be
delighted with you.
Lead, lead! then run up to Manlium, to that bad friend;
he has hidden you for a long time. Begin now, conduct a war
in the state!
In a short time we will conquer you and all of you, the enemy of
the patriot,
and you will always pay the heavy penalty to us all.
