Section 5D(i) Cruel to be kind

Question 1

in hāc causā, nōn atrōcitāte animī moueor …

Answer 1

In this case (lawsuit), I am not moved by harshness of mind ..

Question 2

– quis enim est mē mītior? –

Answer 2

— for who is gentler than me?—

Question 3

… sed singulārī quādam hūmānitāte et misericordiā.

Answer 3

… [but I am moved] by a certain special kindness and pity.

Question 4

uideor enim mihi uidēre hanc urbem, …

Answer 4

For I seem [to myself] to see this city, …

Question 5

… lūcem orbis terrārum atque arcem omnium gentium, …

Answer 5

… the light of the whole world and the citadel of all races, …

Question 6

… subitō ūnō incendiō concidentem.

Answer 6

… suddenly collapsing in one conflagration.

Question 7

uersātur mihi ante oculōs aspectus et furor …

Answer 7

Before my eyes are turning the appearance and the madness …

Question 8

… Cethēgī in uestrā caede bacchantis, …

Answer 8

… of Cethegus, reveling in your slaughter, …

Question 9

… Lentulī rēgnantis, …

Answer 9

… of Lentulus reigning (like a king), …

Question 10

… Catilīnae cum exercitū uenientis.

Answer 10

… of Catiline coming with an army.

Question 11

cum haec mihi prōpōnō, …

Answer 11

When I imagine [place before myself] these things, …

Question 12

… tum lāmentātiōnem mātrum familiās, …

Answer 12

… then [as for] the lamentation of mothers [of the household], …

Question 13

… tum fugam uirginum et puerōrum, …

Answer 13

… then [as for] the flight of maidens and boys, …

Question 14

… tum uexātiōnem uirginum Vestālium perhorrēscō, et, ..

Answer 14

… then [as for] the ill-treatment of the Vestals I shudder, and, …

Question 15

… quia mihi uehementer haec uidentur misera atque miseranda, …

Answer 15

… because these things seem to me violently wretched and pitiable [to be pitied], ..

Question 16

… idcircō in eōs, quī ea perficere uoluērunt, …

Answer 16

… for that reason against those, who wanted to accomplish them, …

Question 17

… mē seuērum uehementemque praebēbō.

Answer 17

… I present myself (as) stern and violent.

Question 18

etenim quaerō, sī quis pater familiās, …

Answer 18

And in fact I ask (you): if some father [head of the household], …

Question 19

… līberīs suīs ā seruō interfectīs, …

Answer 19

… when his children have been killed by a slave, …

Question 20

… uxōre occīsā, …

Answer 20

… when his wife has been killed, …

Question 21

… incēnsā domō, …

Answer 21

… when his home has been burned, …

Question 22

… supplicium dē seruīs nōn quam acerbissimum sūmat, …

Answer 22

… should not exact the harshest possible penalty from his slaves, …

Question 23

… utrum is clēmēns ac misericors an inhūmānissimus et crūdēlissimus esse uideātur?

Answer 23

… would he seem merciful and forgiving or most savage and most cruel?

Question 24

mihi uērō ille importūnus ac ferreus esse uideātur, …

Answer 24

To me, in truth, that (man) would seem cruel and unfeeling, …

Question 25

… nisi dolōre nocentis suum dolōrem lēniat.

Answer 25

… unless he soothed the his pain with the pain of the (person( harming (him).

Question 26

sīc nōs misericordēs habēbimur, …

Answer 26

It is in this way that we will be regarded as compassionate, …

Question 27

… sī uehementissimī in hīs hominibus fuerimus …

Answer 27

… if we will have been most violent in the case of these people …

Question 28

… quī nōs, quī coniugēs, quī līberōs nostrōs trucīdāre uoluērunt, …

Answer 28

… who wished to slaughter us, (our) wives, (and) our children, …

Question 29

… quī singulās domōs et hoc ūniuersum reī pūblicae domicilium dēlēre cōnātī sunt;

Answer 29

… who have tried to destroy individual homes and this universal dwelling of the commonwealth;

Question 30

sīn remissiōrēs esse uoluerimus, crūdēlissimī habēbimur.

Answer 30

but if we will have wished to be milder, we will be regarded as the cruelest.

Question 31

nam Lentulus attribuit nōs necandōs Cethēgō …

Answer 31

For Lentulus assigned us to Cethegus to be killed …

Question 32

… et cēterōs cīuīs interficiendōs Gabīniō;

Answer 32

… and other citizens to Gabinius to be killed;

Question 33

urbem incendendam Cassiō attribuit, …

Answer 33

he assigned to Cassius the city to be burned, …

Question 34

… tōtam Ītaliam uāstandam dīripiendamque Catilīnae.

Answer 34

… and (he assigned) to Catiline all Italy to be laid waste and torn apart.

Question 35

Lentulus ad ēuertenda fundāmenta reī pūblicae Gallōs arcessit, …

Answer 35

Lentulus summoned the Gauls to overturn the foundations of the commonwealth, …

Question 36

… ad incendendam urbem seruōs concitat,

Answer 36

… he incited slaves to burn the city, …

Question 37

… ad dūcendum contrā urbem exercitum Catilīnam uocat.

Answer 37

… he called Catiline to lead an army against the state.

Question 38

quid hōc facinore magis timendum?

Answer 38

What is more to be feared than this crime?

Question 39

quid hōc scelere minus neglegendum?

Answer 39

What is less to be neglected than this wickedness?