CH VIII SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

1． Frater meus vitam in otio semper aget. (Terense.)

My brother is always spendingwill always spend his live in leisure.

我的哥哥（弟弟）总是在闲暇中生活。

2． Age, age! Iuva me! Duc me ad secundum filium meum. (Terence.)

age, age = come, come!

Come, come! Help me! Take me to my second son.

来，来！帮帮我！带我去我二儿子那。

3． O, amici, libertatem perdimus.(Laberius.)

perdere = o destroy

Oh, friend, we are destroying liberty.

哦，朋友，我们在毁灭自由。

4． Nova pericula populo Romano exponam sine mora. (Cicero.)

exponere = to set forth

I shall expose the new dangers to the Roman people without delay.

我应该立刻向罗马人指出新的危险。

5． Numquam periculum sine periclulo vincemus. (Publilius Syrus.)

We will never conquer danger without danger。

我们就没有办法不带危险地战胜危险。

6． Ex meis erroribus hominibus rectum iter demonstrare possum. (Seneca.)

error, -roris

rectus, -a, -um right

iter, itineris n. road way

From my errors, I can show the right way to people.

从我的错误中，我可以向人们指出正确之路。

7． Catullus Marco Tullio Ciceroni magnas gratias agit. (Catullus.)

Catullus gives great thanks to Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Catullus非常感谢Marcus ·Tullius ·西塞罗

8． Eximia forma virginis oculos hominum convertit. (Livy.)

eximius, -a, -um extraordinary

convertere to turn around, attract

Extraordinary beantiful of virgin attracts eyes of men.

处女不同寻常的美丽吸引着男人们的目光。

9． Agamenmnon magnas copias e terra Graeca ad Troiam ducet, ubi multos viros necabit. (Cicero.)

Agamennon, -nonis

Agamennon will lead great troops from the Greek land country to Troy where he will kill many men there.

阿伽门农将从希腊引领大军去特洛伊，他将杀死许多人。

10． Amor laudis homines trahit. (Cicero)

Love of praise draws men.

对于称赞的爱拖累人。

11． Auctores pacis Caesar conservabit. (Cicero)

auctor, -oris author

Caesar will keep authors of peace.

凯撒会保护和平的支持者（创始人）。

12． Inter multas curas laboresque carmina scribere non possum. (Horace.)

inter prep.+acc. among

Among many worries and labors, I cannot write poems.

在许多忧虑与劳动中，我不能写诗。

13． Dum in magna urbe declamas, mi amice, scriptorem Troiani belli in otio relego.(Horace.)

urbs, urbis f. city

declamare to declaim

Troianus, -a, 0um

relegere to re-read

While you are delaiming in big city, my friends, I am re-reading writer of Troy war in leisure.

14． Non vitae, sed scholae, discimus. (*Seneca.)

vitae和scholae 表达目的的与格

schola, -ae school

We are not learning to life but to school.

我们不是为了生活而学习，而是为了学校而学习。

15． Homines , dum docent, discunt. (*Seneca)

While men teach, they learn.

当人在教的时，他们在学。

16． Ratio me ducet, non fortuna. (Livy)

Reason, not fortune, will lead me.

理智，而不是命运，会引领我。