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Question 1

Diffugere nives

Answer 1

The snows have disappeared

Question 2

Redeunt iam gramina campos arboribusque comae;

Answer 2

Already the grass returns to the fields and the leaves to the trees;

Question 3

mutat terra vices,

Answer 3

Earth changes its seasons,

Question 4

et decrescentia ripas flumina praetereunt;

Answer 4

and the subsiding rivers flow between their banks;

Question 5

Gratia cum Nymphis geminisque sororibus audet ducere nuda choros.

Answer 5

a Grace, with the Nymphs and with her twin sisters, dares to lead the dancing, naked.

Question 6

immortalia ne speres, monet annus et almum que rapit hora diem:

Answer 6

The year, and the passage of time that snatches away the life-giving day, warns you not to hope for immortality:

Question 7

frigora mitescunt Zephryis,

Answer 7

the cold is lessened by the westerly winds,

Question 8

ver proterit aestas interitura simul pomifer autumnus fruges effuderit,

Answer 8

summer tramples on spring and will perish as soon as fruitful autumn pours out its harvest;

Question 9

et mox bruma recurrit inners.

Answer 9

and soon lifeless winter returns.

Question 10

damna tamen celeres reparant caelestia lunae:

Answer 10

Yet quickly passing moons are recovering their losses in the sky: