Deponents Test Translations

Question 1

Annos undeviginti natus exercitum privato consilio et
privata impensa comparavi, per quem rem publicam a
dominatione factionis oppressam in libertatem vindicavi.

Answer 1

At the age of 19 I funded my own army with private initiative and private expense, through which I delivered the republic, oppressed by the domination of a faction, into freedom

Question 1

Eo nomine Senatus decretis honorificis in ordinem suum me adlegit, C. Pansa et A. Hirtio consulibus, consularem locum sententiae dicendae tribuens, et imperium mihi dedit.

Answer 1

For this reason the senate enrolled me in their order by honorable decree, When Pansa and Hirtius were consuls, given me the consular right of speaking my mind, and the Senate gave to me the command.

Question 2

In consulatu sexto et septimo, postquam bella civilia exstinxeram, per consensum universorum potitus rerum omnium, rem publicam ex mea potestate in senatus populique Romani arbitrium transtuli.

Answer 2

In my 6th and 7th consulship, after I had extinguished civil wars, through universal consensus, having gotten control of all things, I transferred the republic from my power into the power of the Senate and the Roman people.

Question 3

Quo pro merito meo senatus consulto Augustus appellatus sum

Answer 3

For this service, I was named Augustus by the decree of the Senate