Wheelock Sentences Chapter 28

Front 1

Auctor sapiens et diligens turpia vitet et bona probet.

Back 1

Let a wise and careful author avoid the base and approve the good.

Hint 1

Note: jussive subjunctive

Front 2

Itaque pro patria etiam maiora melioraque nunc faciamus.

Back 2

And so, let us now do even greater and better things for the fatherland.

Hint 2

Note: jussive subjunctive

Front 3

Nepos tuus a mensa discedat ne ista verba acerba audiat.

Back 3

Let your grandson leave the table so as not to hear those harsh words.

Hint 3

Note: jussive subjunctive and a (negative) purpose clause (with subjunctive)

Front 4

Ne imperator superbus credat se esse feliciorem quam virum humillimum.

Back 4

Let a proud emperor not believe himself to be more fortunate than the most humble man.

Hint 4

Note: jussive subjunctive

Front 5

Quisque petit quam felicissimum et ubranissimum modum vitae.

Back 5

Each seeks the happiest and most elegant way of life possible.

Front 6

Quidam delectationes et beneficia aliis praestant ut beneficia similia recipiant.

Back 6

Some offer kindnesses and pleasures to others so that they may receive similar kindnesses.

Front 7

Multi medici lucem solis fuisse primum remedium putant.

Back 7

Many doctors think that the sun’s light was the best (i.e. prime) remedy.

Hint 7

Note: primus, prima, primum ADJ
first, foremost/best, chief, principal;

Front 8

Imperium duci potentiori dabunt ut hostes acerrimos avertat.

Back 8

They will give imperium to a rather powerful leader so he may turn away the fiercest enemy.

Front 9

His verbis tristibus nuntiatis, pars hostium duos principes suos reliquit.

Back 9

With these sad words announced, a faction of the enemy left behind their own two generals.

Hint 9

princeps, principis N M
leader/chief

Front 10

Maiores putabant deos superos habere corpora humana pulcherrima et fortissima.

Back 10

The ancestors used to think that the gods above had the most beautiful and strongest human bodies.

Front 11

Uxor pudica eius haec decem utilissima tum probavit.

Back 11

His modest wife then recommended these ten very useful things.

Front 12

Ne putet illas leges dissimiles esse [peiores quam alias] / [peiores aliis].

Back 12

Let him not think that those dissimilar laws are worse than the others.

Hint 12

jussive subjunctive

Front 13

Illi ut faciant hanc rem facillimam in foro decem viros solos mittent.

Back 13

They will send only ten men to do this very easy thing in the forum.

Front 14

“Appellemus,” inquiunt, “clarissimum imperatorem superbissimum ne e patria expellamur.”

Back 14

They said: "Let us call the arrogant emperor a most illustrious man in order not to be expelled from the country."

Hint 14

jussive subjunctive followed by a purpose clause (with subjunctive)

Front 15

Itaque ne hanc sapientissimam feminam atque optimam ab cena discedere iubeant.

Back 15

Therefore, let them not order this very wise and very good woman to depart from the dinner.

Front 16

Ratio ducat, non fortuna. (Livy)

Back 16

Let reason lead, not luck.

Hint 16

jussive subjunctive

Front 17

Arma togae cedant. (Cicero)

Back 17

Let arms yield to the toga.

Hint 17

jussive subjunctive

Front 18

Ex urbe nunc discede ne metu et armis opprimar. (Cicero)

Back 18

Now leave from the city so that I may not be suppressed by fear and weapons.

Front 19

Nunc una res mihi protinus est facienda ut maximum otium et solacium habeam. (Terrence)

Back 19

Now one thing must be done by me immediately in order to have the greatest peace and solace.

Hint 19

passive periphrastic with dative of agent

Front 20

Rapiamus, amici, occasionem de die. (Horace)

Back 20

Let us take the opportunity from the day, my friends.

Front 21

Corpus enim somno et multis aliis rebus eget ut valeat; animus ipse se alit. (Seneca)

Back 21

Truly, the body is in need of sleep and many other things in order to be strong; the spirit nourishes itself.

Hint 21

egeo, egere, egui, - V
need (w/GEN/ABL)

Front 22

Qui beneficium dedit, taceat; narret qui accepit. (Seneca)

Back 22

Let him who gave a gift be silent; let him who received it speak.

Hint 22

accipio, accipere, accepi, acceptus
take, grasp, receive, accept, undertake; admit, let in, hear, learn; obey

Front 23

De mortuis nihil nisi bonum dicamus. (Diogenes Laertius)

Back 23

Let us speak nothing except good of the dead.

Front 24

Parens ipse nec habeat vitia nec toleret. (Quintilian)

Back 24

Let a parent neither have vices himself, nor tolerate them.

Front 25

In hac re ratio habenda est ut monitio acerbitate careat. (Cicero)

Back 25

In this matter, reason must be had so that admonition may lack acerbity.

Front 26

Feminae ad ludos semper veniunt ut videant - et ut ipsae videantur. (Ovid)

Back 26

Women always come to the game to watch – and also to be watched themselves.

Front 27

Arma virumque cano qui primus a litoribus Troiae ad Italiam venit. (Virgil)

Back 27

Of arms and a man I sing, who first came from the shores of Troy to Italy.