Section 17: Infinitives
Latin-to-English Translations
Troiā relictā , Aenē as ā Venere, deā mā 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.
Dī 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 rī . 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 nīs domī tū tiorēs fore (futū rīs esse).
They kept asking whether we had seen the god himself. Rogā bant/Quaerē bant num deum ipsum vī dissē mus.
The senator said that Caesar was sending a messenger to Rome. Senā tor dixit Caesarem nun-tium Rī mam mittere.
The senator said that Caesar would send a messenger to Rome. Senā tor dixit Caesarem nuntium Rī mam missū rum (esse).
The senator said that Caesar had sent a messenger to Rome. Senā tor dixit Caesarem nuntium Rī mam mī sisse.

