Helps to Latin Translation at Sight

Name: Helps to Latin Translation at Sight
Author: Luce, Edmund

Luce, Edmund

Latin language -- Readers

[Linenotes:
  1. +Occasio.+ This, so Livy tells us, was the jealousy between the
  Fabian sisters, the one married to the patrician Sulpicius, the
  other to the plebeian Licinius Stolo.
  1-2. +propter ... alieni.+ The old Roman law of debt was very harsh
  and severe.
  3. +in summo imperio+, i.e. the Consulate.
  4. +accingendum ... esse+ = _they must brace themselves to the
  execution of that idea_. --R. +accingendum+, reflexive here.
  5. +iam eo+, i.e. to the office of Consular Tribune, created 444 B.C.
  6. +si porro annitantur+ = _if they +now+ make a further effort_.
  This use of Pres. Subj. in Or. Obl. frequent in Livy.
  7. +tam honore quam virtute+ = _in official rank as (they were
  already) in merit_. --Rawlins.
  12-14. +ut deducto ... persolveretur+ = ‘_after deducting from the
  amount of the loan_ (+capite+ = _principal_) _what had been paid in
  interest, the balance should be paid in three equal instalments_.’
  --Cluer and Matheson.
  15. +de modo agrorum+ = _relating to the limitation of
  land-holding_.
  16-17. +tribunorum militum+ (sc. _cum consulari potestate_) created
  444 B.C., but no plebeian obtained that honour till 400 B.C., and
  only two after that date.
  17. +utique+ = _one at any rate_.]

+Result.+ ‘The principle was established that Patricians and Plebeians
were both citizens of the State, and equally eligible to the honours and
dignities of the Republic.’ --Ihne.


D29

THE LICINIAN LAWS, 376-366 B.C. (2)

_The Origin of the Floralia, 238 B.C._

  ‘Dic, dea,’ respondi, ‘ludorum quae sit origo.’
    Vix bene desieram; rettulit illa mihi:
  ‘Cetera luxuriae nondum instrumenta vigebant:
    Aut pecus, aut latam dives habebat humum;          4
  Hinc etiam locuples, hinc ipsa pecunia dicta est.
    Sed iam de vetito quisque parabat opes.
  Venerat in morem populi depascere saltus;
    Idque diu licuit, poenaque nulla fuit.             8
  Vindice servabat nullo sua publica vulgus;
    Iamque in privato pascere inertis erat.
  Plebis ad aediles perducta licentia talis
    Publicios: animus defuit ante viris.              12
  Rem populus recipit: multam subiere nocentes:
    Vindicibus laudi publica cura fuit.
  Multa data est ex parte mihi, magnoque favore
    Victores ludos instituere novos.                  16
  Parte locant Clivum, qui tunc erat ardua rupes:
    Utile nunc iter est. Publiciumque vocant.’

        OVID, _Fasti_, v. 237-254, H.  [V. 277-294]

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Helps to Latin Translation at Sight

Luce, Edmund

Latin language -- Readers

[Linenotes:
  1. +Occasio.+ This, so Livy tells us, was the jealousy between the
  Fabian sisters, the one married to the patrician Sulpicius, the
  other to the plebeian Licinius Stolo.
  1-2. +propter ... alieni.+ The old Roman law of debt was very harsh
  and severe.
  3. +in summo imperio+, i.e. the Consulate.
  4. +accingendum ... esse+ = _they must brace themselves to the
  execution of that idea_. --R. +accingendum+, reflexive here.
  5. +iam eo+, i.e. to the office of Consular Tribune, created 444 B.C.
  6. +si porro annitantur+ = _if they +now+ make a further effort_.
  This use of Pres. Subj. in Or. Obl. frequent in Livy.
  7. +tam honore quam virtute+ = _in official rank as (they were
  already) in merit_. --Rawlins.
  12-14. +ut deducto ... persolveretur+ = ‘_after deducting from the
  amount of the loan_ (+capite+ = _principal_) _what had been paid in
  interest, the balance should be paid in three equal instalments_.’
  --Cluer and Matheson.
  15. +de modo agrorum+ = _relating to the limitation of
  land-holding_.
  16-17. +tribunorum militum+ (sc. _cum consulari potestate_) created
  444 B.C., but no plebeian obtained that honour till 400 B.C., and
  only two after that date.
  17. +utique+ = _one at any rate_.]

+Result.+ ‘The principle was established that Patricians and Plebeians
were both citizens of the State, and equally eligible to the honours and
dignities of the Republic.’ --Ihne.


D29

THE LICINIAN LAWS, 376-366 B.C. (2)

_The Origin of the Floralia, 238 B.C._

  ‘Dic, dea,’ respondi, ‘ludorum quae sit origo.’
    Vix bene desieram; rettulit illa mihi:
  ‘Cetera luxuriae nondum instrumenta vigebant:
    Aut pecus, aut latam dives habebat humum;          4
  Hinc etiam locuples, hinc ipsa pecunia dicta est.
    Sed iam de vetito quisque parabat opes.
  Venerat in morem populi depascere saltus;
    Idque diu licuit, poenaque nulla fuit.             8
  Vindice servabat nullo sua publica vulgus;
    Iamque in privato pascere inertis erat.
  Plebis ad aediles perducta licentia talis
    Publicios: animus defuit ante viris.              12
  Rem populus recipit: multam subiere nocentes:
    Vindicibus laudi publica cura fuit.
  Multa data est ex parte mihi, magnoque favore
    Victores ludos instituere novos.                  16
  Parte locant Clivum, qui tunc erat ardua rupes:
    Utile nunc iter est. Publiciumque vocant.’

        OVID, _Fasti_, v. 237-254, H.  [V. 277-294]

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Helps to Latin Translation at Sight

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