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Question 1

quod ad me scribis de sorore tua,

Answer 1

As to what you write to me about your sister,

Question 2

testis erit tibi ipsa

Answer 2

she herself will be a witness to you

Question 3

quantae mihi curae fuerit

Answer 3

of how much of a concern it has been to me

Question 4

ut Quinti fratris animus in eam esset is qui esse deberet.

Answer 4

that my brother Quintus’ attitude towards her is what it ought to be.

Question 5

quem cum esse offensiorem arbitrarer,

Answer 5

Since I thought that he was rather offensive,

Question 6

eas litteras ad eum misi

Answer 6

I sent the sort of letter to him

Question 7

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

Answer 7

with which I might appease him as a brother and advise him as a junior and rebuke him as one who was making a mistake.

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Therefore from those things which were often written to me by him afterwards,

Question 9

confido ita esse omnia ut et oporteat et velimus.

Answer 9

I am confident that everything is both as it should be and as we would wish.