Part 5

Question 1

Aura popularis

Answer 1

Cicero

The popular breeze

Question 2

Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis

Answer 2

Propertius

in his elegies

I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love

Question 3

Ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant

Answer 3

Tacitus

in his Agricola

When they make a desolation, they call it peace

Question 4

Culpam poena premit comes

Answer 4

Horace

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion

Question 5

Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

Answer 5

Varro

in his De re rustica

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities

Question 6

Alere flammas

Answer 6

Ovid

To feed the flames

Question 7

Dulce est desipere in loco

Answer 7

Horace

It is sweet to relax at the proper time

Question 8

Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

Answer 8

Cicero

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic?

Question 9

Mus uni non fidit antro

Answer 9

Plautus

A mouse does not rely on just one hole

Question 10

Nemo repente fuit turpissimus

Answer 10

Juvenal

in his Satires

No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step

Question 11

Consule Planco

Answer 11

Horace

In the consulship of Plancus (In the good old days)

Question 12

Gigni de nihilo nihil; in nihilum nil posse reverti

Answer 12

Persius

in his Satires

Nothing can be produced from nothing; nothing can be returned into nothing

Question 13

Ingenio maximus, arte rudis

Answer 13

Ovid

talking about Ennius

Greatest in genius, rough in skill

Question 14

Ars est celare artem

Answer 14

Ovid

It is art to conceal art

Question 15

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas

Answer 15

Ovid

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

Question 16

Non est ars quae ad effectum casu venit

Answer 16

Seneca the Younger

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art

Question 17

Bruta fulmina et vana

Answer 17

Pliny the Elder

in his Naturalis Historia

Thunderbolts that strike blindly and in vain

Question 18

Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Answer 18

Pliny the Younger

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part

Question 19

Bella horrida bella

Answer 19

Virgil

Wars, horrid wars

Question 20

Res ad triarios rediit

Answer 20

Livy

The situation has come down to the triarii

Question 21

Materiam superabat opus

Answer 21

Ovid

The workmanship surpassed the subject matter

Question 22

Vir bonus, dicendi peritus

Answer 22

Cato the Elder

defining an orator

A good man, skilled in speaking

Question 23

Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet

Answer 23

Curtius Rufus

A timid dog barks more violently than it bites

Question 24

Colossus magnitudinem suam servabit etiam si steterit in puteo

Answer 24

Seneca the Younger

A giant will keep his size even though he will have stood in a well

Question 25

**Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent**

Answer 25

Publilius Syrus ## Footnote Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people

Question 26

**Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat?**

Answer 26

Horace ## Footnote What forbids a laughing man from telling the truth?

Question 27

**Per varios usus artem experientia fecit**

Answer 27

Manilius ## Footnote Practice has brought skill through different exercises

Question 28

**Quam se ipse amans- sine rivali!**

Answer 28

Cicero ## Footnote Himself loving himself so much- without a rival!

Question 29

**Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores**

Answer 29

Petrarch ## Footnote You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me

Question 30

**Cito fit quod dii volunt**

Answer 30

Petronius ## Footnote What the gods want happens soon

Question 31

**Ab uno disce omnes**

Answer 31

Virgil ## Footnote Learn all from one thing

Question 32

**Tacent, satis laudant**

Answer 32

Terence ## Footnote Their silence is enough praise

Question 33

**Novem Iovis concordes filiae sorores**

Answer 33

Gnaeus Naevius | referring to the Muses in the first line of *Bellum Poenicum* ## Footnote You nine daughters of Jupiter, sisters of one heart

Question 34

**Aspirat primo Fortuna labori**

Answer 34

Virgil ## Footnote Fortune smiles upon our first effort

Question 35

**Praeceptores suos adulescens veneratur et suspicit**

Answer 35

Seneca the Younger ## Footnote A young man respects and looks up to his teachers

Question 36

**At tuba terribili sonitu taratantara dixit**

Answer 36

Ennius ## Footnote But the trumpet sounded with its terrible taratantara

Question 37

**Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura**

Answer 37

Seneca the Younger | in his *Epistulae morales* ## Footnote Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man

Question 38

**Quorum pars magna fui**

Answer 38

Virgil | in his *Aeneid* ## Footnote Of which I was a great part

Question 39

**Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est**

Answer 39

Cicero ## Footnote Inhumanity is harmful in every age

Question 40

**De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum**

Answer 40

Thomas á Kempis ## Footnote Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen

Question 41

**Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico care oportere**

Answer 41

Julius Caesar | after his divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC ## Footnote I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law

Question 42

**Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est**

Answer 42

Catullus ## Footnote There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh