Cicero: Marital Conflict

Question 1

quod ad me scribis de sorore tua,

Sentence 1 (Part 1/4)

First Letter (Cicero writing to Titus Pomponius Atticus, his closest friend and correspondent)

Answer 1

Because you are writing to me about your sister,

Sentence 1 (Part 1/4)

Question 2

testis erit tibi ipsa

Sentence 1 (Part 2/4)

First Letter (Cicero writing to Titus Pomponius Atticus, his closest friend and correspondent)

Answer 2

she herself will be a witness for you

Sentence 1 (Part 2/4)

Question 3

quantae mihi curae fuerit,

Sentence 1 (Part 3/4)

First Letter (Cicero writing to Titus Pomponius Atticus, his closest friend and correspondent)

Answer 3

as to how much of a concern she has become for me,

Sentence 1 (Part 3/4)

Question 4

ut Quinti fratris animusin eam esset is qui esse deberet.

Sentence 1 (Part 4/4)

First Letter (Cicero writing to Titus Pomponius Atticus, his closest friend and correspondent)

Answer 4

as my brother Quintus has her on his mind as it is he who is her husband and ought to

Sentence 1 (Part 4/4)

Question 5

quem cum esse offensiorem arbitrarer,

Sentence 2 (Part 1/3)

First Letter (Cicero writing to Titus Pomponius Atticus, his closest friend and correspondent)

Answer 5

While I was thinking her to be more offensive,

Sentence 2 (Part 1/3)

Question 6

eas litteras ad eum misi quibus

Sentence 2 (Part 2/3)

First Letter (Cicero writing to Titus Pomponius Atticus, his closest friend and correspondent)

Answer 6

I have sent these letters to him by which

Sentence 2 (Part 2/3)

Question 7

et placarem ut fratrem et monerem ut minorem et obiurgarem ut errantem.

Sentence 2 (Part 3/3)

First Letter (Cicero writing to Titus Pomponius Atticus, his closest friend and correspondent)

Answer 7

I am trying to appease him as a brother but warn him as my younger sibling and to chide him as someone making a mistake

Sentence 2 (Part 3/3)

Question 8

itaque ex iis, quae postea saepe ab eo ad me scripta sunt

Sentence 3 (Part 1/2)

First Letter (Cicero writing to Titus Pomponius Atticus, his closest friend and correspondent)

Answer 8

And so out of those letters which were often sent by him to me afterwards,

Sentence 3 (Part 1/2)

Question 9

confido ita esse omnia ut et oporteat et velimus.

Sentence 3 (Part 2/2)

First Letter (Cicero writing to Titus Pomponius Atticus, his closest friend and correspondent)

Answer 9

I trust everything to be both as it should be and as we would wish.

Sentence 3 (Part 2/2)

Question 10

postridie ex Arpinati protecti summus

Sentence 4 (Part 1/2)

Second Letter

Answer 10

On the next day we set out from Arpinium …

Sentence 4 (Part 1/2)

Question 11

prandimus in Arcano (nosti hunc fundum).

Sentence 4 (Part 2/2)

Second Letter

Answer 11

… we had lunch in Arcanum (you know this farm).

Sentence 4 (Part 2/2)

Question 12

quo ut venimus humanissime Quintus, “Pomponia,” inquit

Sentence 5 (Part 1/4)

Second Letter

Answer 12

When we got there, Quintus said in a very considerate way, “Pomponia,

Sentence 5 (Part 1/4)

Question 13

“tu invita mulieres, ego vero accivero pueros”;

Sentence 5 (Part 2/4)

Second Letter

Answer 13

will you call the women and I will summon the slaves”;

Sentence 5 (Part 2/4)

Question 14

nihil potuit, mihi quidem ut visum est, dulcius

Sentence 5 (Part 3/4)

Second Letter

Answer 14

he could have done nothing sweeter, or so it seemed to me,

Sentence 5 (Part 3/4)

Question 15

idque cum verbis tum etiam amino ac vultu.

Sentence 5 (Part 4/4)

Second Letter

Answer 15

both in his words but also in his character and expression.

Sentence 5 (Part 4/4)

Question 16

at illa inquit audientibus nobis “ego ipsa sum” inquit, “hic hospita”;

Sentence 6 (Part 1/3)

Second Letter

Answer 16

But she, listening to us said, “I myself am a stranger here”;

Sentence 6 (Part 1/3)

Question 17

id autem ex eo, ut opinor,

Sentence 6 (Part 2/3)

Second Letter

Answer 17

and this was because, or so I think,

Sentence 6 (Part 2/3)

Question 18

quod antecesserat Statius ut prandium nobis videret.

Sentence 6 (Part 3/3)

Second Letter

Answer 18

Statitus had gone before us to lunch and she had seen him.

Sentence 6 (Part 3/3)

Question 19

tum Quintus, “en,” inquit mihi, “haec ego patior cotidie.”

Sentence 7 (Part 1/1)

Second Letter

Answer 19

Then Quintus said to me, “Look! I am putting up with this every day.”

Sentence 7 (Part 1/1)

Question 20

dices “quid quaeso istuc erat?” magnum;

Sentence 8 (Part 1/2)

Second Letter

Answer 20

You will say a great deal, “What may I ask was that?”;

Sentence 8 (Part 1/2)

Question 21

idque me ipsum commoverat; sic absurde et aspere verbis vultuque responderat.

Sentence 8 (Part 2/2)

Second Letter

Answer 21

it had shocked me a little; she had replied in this way with words and an expression that were irrational and harsh.

Sentence 8 (Part 2/2)

Question 22

dissimulavi dolens.

Sentence 9 (Part 1/1)

Second Letter

Answer 22

I hid my upset.

Sentence 9 (Part 1/1)

Question 23

discubuimus omnes praeter illam,

Sentence 10 (Part 1/2)

Second Letter

Answer 23

We all reclined to dinner except for the lady,

Sentence 10 (Part 1/2)

Question 24

cui tamen Quintus de mensa misit; illa reiecit.

Sentence 10 (Part 2/2)

Second Letter

Answer 24

and so Quintus sent some food to her from the table; she rejected it

Sentence 10 (Part 2/2)

Question 25

quid multa? | Sentence 11 (Part 1/1) ## Footnote Second Letter

Answer 25

What more?

Question 26

nihil meo fratre lenius, nihil asperius tua sorore mihi visum est ... | Sentence 12 (Part 1/1) ## Footnote Second Letter

Answer 26

It seemed to me my brother could not have been more gentle, while your sister couldn't have been ruder ... | Sentence 12 (Part 1/1)

Question 27

ego inde Arquinium | Sentence 13 (Part 1/1) ## Footnote Second Letter

Answer 27

I went from there to Arquinium. | Sentence 13 (Part 1/1)

Question 28

Quintus in Arcano remansit et in Aquinum ad me postridie mane venit | Sentence 14 (Part 1/3) ## Footnote Second Letter

Answer 28

Quintus stayed behind at Arcanum and early the next day he came over to me to see me at Aquinum | Sentence 14 (Part 1/3)

Question 29

mihique narravit nec secum illam dormire voluisse | Sentence 14 (Part 2/3) ## Footnote Second Letter

Answer 29

and told me that she had not wanted to sleep with him | Sentence 14 (Part 2/3)

Question 30

et cum discessura esset fuisse eius modi qualem ego vidissem. | Sentence 14 (Part 3/3) ## Footnote Second Letter

Answer 30

and when he had made to depart she had been in the same mood as when I had last seen her. | Sentence 14 (Part 3/3)