Chp 41 Poem BEATUS ILLE

Question 1

Beatus ille, qui procul negotiis,

Answer 1

Blessed is he, who away from work

Question 2

Ut prisca gens mortalium

Answer 2

Like the ancient race of men

Question 3

Paterna rura bobus exercet suis

Answer 3

Cultivates his fathers farm with his oxen

Question 4

Solutus omni faenore

Answer 4

Free from all debt

Question 5

Neque excitatur classico miles truci

Answer 5

And a soldier, is not woken by the wild trumpet

Question 6

Neque horret iratum mare

Answer 6

And angry, does not shudder at the sea

Question 7

Forumque vitat et superba civum potentiorum limina

Answer 7

And avoids the forum and the arrogant thresholds of more powerful citizens

Question 8

Aut in reducta valle mugientium prospectsr errantes greges

Answer 8

Or he may gaze out at the herds of wandering cattle, with the lowing cattle having returned to the valley

Question 9

Aut pressa puris mella condit amphoris aut tondet infirmas oves

Answer 9

Or having pressed the honey may he put into clean pitchers, or may he sheer the tender sheep.

Question 10

Liber iacere modo sub antiqua ilice

Answer 10

He delights to lie now under the ancient holm oak

Question 11

Modo in tenaci gramine

Answer 11

Now on the clinging grass

Question 12

Labuntur altisinterin rivis aquae,

Answer 12

At the same time he slips on the high banks of water

Question 13

Queruntur in silvis aves

Answer 13

The birds complain in the forests

Question 14

Fontesque lymphis obstrepunt manantibus,

Answer 14

And springs murmur with flowing waters

Question 15

Somnos quod invitet leves

Answer 15

Which invite light sleep

Question 16

Haec ubi locutus faenerator Alfius,

Answer 16

When the money lender Alfius had said these things

Question 17

Iam, iam futurus rusticus

Answer 17

Now already about to be a farmer

Question 18

Omnem redegit idibus pecuniam

Answer 18

He returned all money on the ides

Question 19

Quaerit kalendis ponere

Answer 19

He seeks to put it on the kalends