LVII 5-9

Question 1

itaque…quidam

Answer 1

and so certain men

Question 2

fortes…et paratissimi

Answer 2

brave and very ready

Question 3

fundere suum sanguinem

Answer 3

to pour out/shed their own blood

Question 4

alienum videre non possunt

Answer 4

can’t stand the sight of someone else’s

Question 5

quidam…succidunt ac liquuntur animo

Answer 5

some collapse and faint

Question 6

ad vulneris novi…tractionem inspectionemque

Answer 6

at the handling and inspection of a new wound

Question 7

quidam ad veteris et purulenti

Answer 7

others at the handling and inspection of an old and festering one (take tractionem and inspectionem)

Question 8

alii gladium facilius recipiunt

Answer 8

some receive a sword blow more easily

Question 9

quam vident

Answer 9

than they see one

Question 10

sensi ergo

Answer 10

so I felt

Question 11

ut dicebam

Answer 11

as I was saying

Question 12

quandam non quidem perturbationem

Answer 12

a certain, not actually unease

Question 13

sed mutationem

Answer 13

but a transformation

Question 14

rursus

Answer 14

likewise

Question 15

ad primum conspectum

Answer 15

at the first sight

Question 16

redditae lucis

Answer 16

of the returning light

Question 17

alacritas rediit

Answer 17

my cheerfulness returned

Question 18

incogitata et iniussa

Answer 18

spontaneous and unbidden

Question 19

illud deinde mecum loqui coepi

Answer 19

then I began to tell myself this

Question 20

quam inepte…timeremus

Answer 20

how absurd it is that we fear

Question 21

quaedam magis aut minus

Answer 21

certain things to a greater or lesser degree

Question 22

cum omnium…finis

Answer 22

since the end of all/everybody’s end

Question 23

idem esset

Answer 23

is the same

Question 24

quid enim interest utrum

Answer 24

for what does it matter/what difference does it make whether

Question 25

vigiliarum ruat an mons

Answer 25

a watch tower or a mountain fall down

Question 26

supra aliquem

Answer 26

on someone

Question 27

nihil invenies

Answer 27

you will find it makes no difference

Question 28

erunt tamen qui

Answer 28

yet/however there will be those who

Question 29

hanc ruinam magis timeant

Answer 29

(may) fear this latter destruction more

Question 30

quamvis utraque mortifera aeque sit

Answer 30

although both are equally deadly

Question 31

adeo non effectus...timor spectat

Answer 31

fear looks not so much at the results

Question 32

sed efficentia

Answer 32

but at the things bringing them about

Question 33

nunc me putas de Stoicis dicere

Answer 33

now do you think I am speaking about the Stoics

Question 34

qui existimant

Answer 34

who suppose

Question 35

animam hominis...extriti

Answer 35

that the soul of a man crushed

Question 36

magno pondere

Answer 36

by a huge weight

Question 37

permanere non posse

Answer 37

can not endure

Question 38

et statim spargi

Answer 38

and is at once dispersed

Question 39

quia non fuerit illi

Answer 39

because it hasn't had

Question 40

exitus liber?

Answer 40

a free exit?

Question 41

ego vero non facio

Answer 41

indeed I am not doing that

Question 42

qui hoc dicunt

Answer 42

those who say this

Question 43

videntur mihi errare

Answer 43

seem to me to be wrong

Question 44

quemadmodum flamma

Answer 44

just as a flame

Question 45

non potest opprimi

Answer 45

can not be crushed

Question 46

nam circa...effugit

Answer 46

for it escapes around

Question 47

id...quo urgetur

Answer 47

that which it is being pressed by

Question 48

quemadmodum aer...non laeditur

Answer 48

just as the air is not hurt

Question 49

verbere atque ictu

Answer 49

by a blow and a beating

Question 50

ne scinditur quidem

Answer 50

nor indeed cut

Question 51

sed circa...refunditur

Answer 51

but pours back around

Question 52

id cui cessit

Answer 52

that which it has yielded to

Question 53

sic animus

Answer 53

thus the soul

Question 54

qui ex tenuissimo constat

Answer 54

which is composed of the finest matter

Question 55

deprendi non potest

Answer 55

can not be caught unawares

Question 56

nec intra corpus effligi

Answer 56

nor destroyed within the body

Question 57

sed beneficio

Answer 57

but thanks to

Question 58

subtilitatis suae

Answer 58

its own slightness

Question 59

per ipsa...erumpit

Answer 59

bursts out through the very things

Question 60

quibus premitur

Answer 60

by which it is crushed

Question 61

quomodo fulmini...est reditus

Answer 61

in the way that lightning has a way back

Question 62

etiam cum...percussit

Answer 62

even when it has struck

Question 63

latissime...ac fulsit

Answer 63

and flashed over the widest area

Question 64

per exiguum foramen

Answer 64

through a tiny outlet

Question 65

sic animo, qui...fuga est

Answer 65

thus the soul, which...has a way of escaping

Question 66

adhuc tenuior est igne

Answer 66

is slighter still than fire

Question 67

per omne corpus

Answer 67

through every body

Question 68

itaque de illo quaerendum est

Answer 68

and so one ought to inquire about this

Question 69

an possit immortalis esse

Answer 69

whether the soul can be immortal

Question 70

hoc quidem certum habe

Answer 70

know this for certain indeed

Question 71

si superstes est corpori

Answer 71

that if it survives from the body

Question 72

proteri illum nullo genere posse

Answer 72

it can not be crushed in any way

Question 73

quoniam nulla immortalitas

Answer 73

since no immortality

Question 74

cum exceptione est

Answer 74

has this exception

Question 75

nec quicquam noxium...est

Answer 75

and nothing is harmful

Question 76

aeterno

Answer 76

for something that is eternal