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Section 17: Infinitives

Latin-to-English Translations

  • Troiā relictā , Aenē as ā Venere, deā treque suā , Hesperiam petere coactus est. Once he had abandoned Troy, Aeneas was compelled by Venus, a goddess and his mother, to head for Hesperia.

  • Titus Livius scripsit Hersiliam uxī rem Rī mulīesse. Titus Livius (Livy) wrote that Hersilia was the wife of Romulus.

  • citur cor istius virī foedum fuisse et minimē mundum. It is said that the heart of that man was foul and not in the least clean.

  • Negā vit iterum iterumque sēubi aurum celā tum esset scī re. He denied over and over that he knew where the gold had been hidden.

  • Mulierēs intersē colloquentē s nondum nesciē bant sē spec-tā . The women who were talking among themselves did not yet know that they were being watched.

English-to-Latin Translations

  • We felt that we would be safer at home. Sensimus s domī tiorēs fore (futū s esse).

  • They kept asking whether we had seen the god himself. Rogā bant/Quaerē bant num deum ipsum dissē mus.

  • The senator said that Caesar was sending a messenger to Rome. Senā tor dixit Caesarem nun-tium mam mittere.

  • The senator said that Caesar would send a messenger to Rome. Senā tor dixit Caesarem nuntium mam missū rum (esse).

  • The senator said that Caesar had sent a messenger to Rome. Senā tor dixit Caesarem nuntium mam mī sisse.

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