Learn to Read Latin, Second Edition - Answer Key

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by  Andrew Keller, Stephanie Russell

Answer Key for the Short, Longer,
and Continuous Readings of
Learn to Read Latin (Second Edition)

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without the expressed permission of the authors.

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Chapter II, Short Readings (page 44)

1. Lys. But even now does Casina have a sword?
Par. She has (= Yes), two.
2. I am Davus, not Oedipus.
does not grant
3. When I was not able (to see) you, I was able to see your sails.
4. A god favors.
5. Now indeed you love me, (but) you are not (my) friend.
6. I see a beard and a cloak; a philosopher not yet do I see.

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Chapter III, Short Readings (pages 61-62)

1. To love is always pleasant.
2. To love is human, to forgive, moreover, is human.
3. Often there is even under a dirty little cloak wisdom.
4. With shared minds/souls they love, they are loved.
5. Cato is considered honorable and great.
6. . . .we are ordered again to go into the sea, again to set sail.
7. He orders his own men to throw together (their) packs into a pile and to put on arms and with
iron not with gold to regain the homeland . . .
8. An uncertain mind is half of wisdom.
9. Patience of mind holds hidden riches.

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Chapter IV, Short Readings (pages 79-81)

1. Tell me, Camena, of the versatile man . . .
2. My Toxilus, why am I without you?
Why, moreover, are you without me?
3. I am you, you are I, we are of one mind.
4. De. Tell me,
are you not shouting? Are you not raging?
Mi. (I am) not (shouting, raging).
5. Listen, boys, to a few things: you (pl.) draw near.
6. For one is able to make something and not to do (something), as a poet makes a play and does
not do (it); in turn, a doer/actor does/acts and does not make, . . . in turn a commander . . .
neither makes nor does but manages . . .
7. Romulus is conducting (his) life in the sky with the gods.
8. The gods look after great things, they neglect small things.
9. To love and to be wise scarcely to a god is granted.
10. With the mind chaste women choose a man, not with the eye.
11. Never is danger overcome without danger.
12. It is enough to overcome an enemy, (it is) too much to destroy (him).
13. I sing of arms and a man . . .
14. You will drive out nature with a pitchfork, nevertheless it will continuously rush back.
15. They desire to be feared and they fear to be feared.
16. (My) riches are mine (belong to me), you are of (your) riches (belong to your riches).
17. I do not love you, Sabidius, and I am not able to say why;
this thing only I am able to say: I do not love you.
18. Take me; I am yours.

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Chapter V, Short Readings (pages 100-103)

1. Euclio: Be silent and go away inside. Staphylo: I am being silent and I am going away.
2. Take this gold for yourself, Chrysalus, go, bring (it) to (my) son.
3. O you, Titus Tatius tyrant, you have borne so great things for yourself.
4. What is (it) to cultivate a field? To plough well. What is second? To plough. What (is) third? To
spread with manure.
5. So many men take a taste of books as dinner guests (take a taste of) delicacies.
6. The Roman people hate private luxury, value public magnificence.
7. . . . as a field . . . without cultivation is not able to be fruitful, so without training the soul (is not
able to be fruitful).
8. A greedy man is the cause of his own misery.
9. . . . go (pl.),
bring (pl.) quickly fire, give weapons, drive forward the oars!
10. As you (will bear) fortune, so we shall bear you, Celsus.
11. I shall hate if I am able; If (I am) not (able), unwillingly I shall love.
12. She will have laughed, laugh with (her); if she weeps, remember to weep.
13. Come on, lead your pupils to my temples . . .
14. You yourself now turn over with yourself feminine deceits . . .
15. Neither power (knows how) to endure an ally nor marriage torches know how (to endure an
ally).
16. Exiles to me are not at all new; I am accustomed to evil things.
17. Withdraw, Phoebus, now I am not yours.

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18. By the fates we are driven; yield (pl.) to the fates.
Many men have
to their own fate while they are fearing the fates.
19. With many men I have conducted hostilities, and into friendly feeling from hatred, if there is
any friendly feeling at all among bad men, I have returned; to me myself not yet am I friendly.
20. On another man you see a louse, on yourself you do not see a tick.
21. If I killed, I did (so) rightly; but I did not kill.
22. . . . little books have their own fates.
23. I was not. I was. I am not. I do not care.
24. . . . I had not been, I am not, I do not know, it does not pertain to me.
25. Thalassian Plotia, freedwoman of Gaius, was bitter to her own husbands and friends never.
26. He yielded to his (own) fates.

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