Quiz 2

Question 1

Sed timeo, ne, cum scribere coepero, quia sum sine litteris rethoricis et arte grammatica, dicturque mihi a litteratis:

Answer 1

But I fear that, when I will begin to write, because I am without rhetorical letters and grammatical skills, it may be said to me by the learned:

Question 2

“O rustice et idiota, ut quid nomen tuum inter scriptores indi aestimas?

Answer 2

“O rustic and idiot why do you consider that your name is placed among writers?

Question 3

Ut quid opus hoc peritis accipi putas, cui ingenium artis non subpeditat, nec ulla litterarum scientia subministrat?

Answer 3

Why do you think that this work is accepted by the experts, you to whom the talent of art is not fully supplied, nor any knowledge of letters furnishes?

Question 4

Qui nullum argumentum utile in litteris habes, qui nomina discernere nescis;

Answer 4

You who have no useful argument in letters, who do not know how to discern nouns;

Question 5

saepius pro masculinis feminae, pro femineis neutra, et pro neutra masculina conmutas’

Answer 5

more often you substitute feminine nouns in place of masculine nouns, neuter nouns instead of feminine, and masculine nouns instead of neuter nouns;

Question 6

qui ipsas quoque praepositiones, quas nobilium dictatorum observari sanxit auctoritas, loco debito plerumque non locas.

Answer 6

you who mostly do not place the very preposition as well, which the authority of noble writers has sanctified to be observed, with the place having been owed.

Question 7

Nam ablativis accusativa et rursum accusativis ablativa praeponis.

Answer 7

For you put the accusative in place of the ablative and in turn again, the ablative in place of the accusative.