calugi translation Flashcards
Nouum praeterea atque inauditum genus spectaculi excogitauit.
moreover he devised a new and unheard of kind of spectacle.
Nam Baiarum medium interuallum †Pu-teolanas moles, trium milium et sescentorum fere passuum spatium, ponte coniunxit.
For he connected the middle distance between the Baiæ with the mole of Puteoli, a space of nearly three thousand and six hundred paces, by a bridge.”
Contractis undique onerariis nauibus et ordine duplici ad anc[h]oras con-locatis superiectoque terreno ac derecto in Appiae uiae formam.
: “Having gathered merchant ships from all sides and arranged them in orderof two , mooring them with anchors and covering them with soil laid flat in the shape of the Appian Way.”
Per hunc pontem ultro citro commeauit biduo continenti.
“Through this bridge, he traveled to and from continuously for two days.
Primo die phalerato equo insignisque querceacorona et caetra et gladio aureaque chlamyde.
On the first day, adorned with a decorated horse and wearing a crown of oak leaves, shield, sword, and a golden cloak.”
Postridie quadrigario habitu curriculoque biugi famosorum equorum.
on the second day in the dress of a charioteer and on a chariot yoked by famous horses.
Prae se ferens Dareum puerum ex Parthorum obsidibus, comitante praetorianorum agmine et in esse-dis cohorte amicorum.
“Leading before him the boy Dareus from the Parthian hostages, with a procession of Praetorians accompanying and a cohort of friends being present.”
scio plerosque existimassé talem a Gaio pontem excogitatum aemulatione Xerxis, qui non sine admiratione aliquanto angustiorem Helles-pontum contablauerit;
“I know that many have thought that such a bridge was devised by Gaius out of emulation of Xerxes, who, not without considerable admiration, bridged the Hellespont somewhat narrower.”
alios, ut Germaniam et Bri-tanniam, quibus imminebat, alicuius inmensi operis fama territaret.
others thought that he had done this as to threaten Germans and British by the fame of such an immense work by which he had advised.
Sed auum meum narrantem puer audiebam,causam operis ab interioribus aulicis proditam,
“But as a boy, I used to listen to my grandfather telling the tale, the reason for the work being revealed byroyal contreint”
quod Thrasyk<l>us mathematicus anxio de successore Tiberio et in uerum nepotem proniori affirmasset,</l>
“because Thrasyclus the astroloigcal, concerned about Tiberius’s successor and more inclined towards his true grandson, had asserted,”
non magis Gaium imperaturum quam per Baianum sinum equis discursurume.
“that Gaius would not reign more than if he were to gallop through the Baian Gulf on horseback.”
Quorum uero studio teneretur, omnibus ad insaniam fauit.
he supported all those things on which he was held by fascination he favored those things to insanity.
Mnesterem pantomimum etiam inter spectacula
osculabatur
he was kissing menester the mime in between acts
ac si qui saltante eo uel leuiter obstreperet,
detrahi iussum manu sua flagellabat.
and if anyone even lightly made a noise with him dancing he would flogg by his own hand the one having been ordered to be dragged away.
equiti R. tumultuanti per centurionem denuntiauit, abiret sine
mora Ostiam perferretque ad Ptolemaeum regem in
Mauretaniam codicillos suos;
he announced through a contraction to the Roman knight causing a disturbance to leave without delay to hostra bring to Ptolemy brought to his own the letters.
quorum exemplum erat:
‘ei quem istoc misi, neque boni quicquam neque
mali feceris.
“Of which the example was: ‘To him whom I have sent, you shall neither do any good nor any harm.’”
