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90507 Translate unfamiliar Latin poetry into English
9.30 am Wednesday 14 November 2012
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INSTRUCTIONS
Translate the passage below into natural English. Give the meaning of the Latin as accurately as
possible.
The main parts of the words in bold are given, together with their meaning, in the glossed vocabulary list.
The passage is repeated on page 4 so that you will not need to turn back to this page.
In 479 BC the gens Fabia, one of the most ancient patrician houses in Rome, conducted a war
against the town of Veii. An army of more than three hundred family members together with their
friends and clients, numbering over four thousand men, fought off the Veientines almost singlehandedly. At last, in 477 BC, the army was lured into an ambush and destroyed.
Note: the metre used is elegiac couplets, made up of a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of
dactylic pentameter.
The End of the Fabii
ubi vincere aperte
non datur, insidias armaque tecta parant.
ecce velut torrens, undis pluvialibus auctus,
aut nive, quae Zephyro victa tepente fluit,
per sata perque vias fertur nec, ut ante solebat,
riparum clausas margine finit aquas.
sic Fabii vallem latis discursibus implent,
quodque vident sternunt, nec metus alter inest.
fraude perit virtus: in apertos undique campos
prosiliunt hostes et latus omne tenent.
quid faciant pauci contra tot milia fortes?
quidve, quod in misero tempore restet, adest?
una dies Fabios ad bellum miserat omnes,
ad bellum missos perdidit una dies.
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Ovid, Fasti, 2.213 – 236 (abridged)
Glossed vocabulary
aperte (adv)
arma, -orum (n pl)
tectus, -a, -um
torrens, torrentis (m)
pluvialis, -is, -e
nix, nivis ( f )
Zephyrus, -i (m)
tepens, tepentis
fluo, -ere, fluxi, fluctum
sata, -orum (n pl)
ante (adv)
margo, marginis (m)
finio, -ire, -ivi, -itum
Fabii, -orum (m pl)
valles, vallis ( f )
openly
arms, weapons, warfare
covered, concealed, hidden
a seething river
of rain, rain-filled, rain-caused
snow
Zephyr (the west wind)
warm, lukewarm
to flow, stream
crops
before, beforehand
edge, border, brink
to check, bound, enclose within borders
the Fabii (the members of the gens Fabia)
valley
discursus, -us (m)
impleo, -ere, implevi,
impletum
sterno, -ere, stravi,
stratum
metus, -us (m)
alter
insum, inesse, infui
fraus, fraudis ( f )
prosilio, -ire, prosilui
-ve (conj)
tempus, temporis (n)
resto, -are, restiti
perdo, -ere, perdidi,
perditum
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convoy, procession, cavalcade
to fill up
to flatten, level, trample
fear, dread
= of anyone else, for another [enemy]
to be in, be upon
deceit, treachery
to leap up, spring forth
or
circumstances, situation
to stand firm, stand one’s ground
to destroy, ruin, do away with
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The text and glossary from page 2 are repeated below.
Continue with your translation on page 5.
In 479 BC the gens Fabia, one of the most ancient patrician houses in Rome, conducted a war
against the town of Veii. An army of more than three hundred family members together with their
friends and clients, numbering over four thousand men, fought off the Veientines almost singlehandedly. At last, in 477 BC, the army was lured into an ambush and destroyed.
Note: the metre used is elegiac couplets, made up of a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of
dactylic pentameter.
The End of the Fabii
ubi vincere aperte
non datur, insidias armaque tecta parant.
ecce velut torrens, undis pluvialibus auctus,
aut nive, quae Zephyro victa tepente fluit,
per sata perque vias fertur nec, ut ante solebat,
riparum clausas margine finit aquas.
sic Fabii vallem latis discursibus implent,
quodque vident sternunt, nec metus alter inest.
fraude perit virtus: in apertos undique campos
prosiliunt hostes et latus omne tenent.
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quid faciant pauci contra tot milia fortes?
quidve, quod in misero tempore restet, adest?
una dies Fabios ad bellum miserat omnes,
ad bellum missos perdidit una dies.
Ovid, Fasti, 2.213 – 236 (abridged)
Glossed vocabulary
aperte (adv)
arma, -orum (n pl)
tectus, -a, -um
torrens, torrentis (m)
pluvialis, -is, -e
nix, nivis ( f )
Zephyrus, -i (m)
tepens, tepentis
fluo, -ere, fluxi, fluctum
sata, -orum (n pl)
ante (adv)
margo, marginis (m)
finio, -ire, -ivi, -itum
Fabii, -orum (m pl)
valles, vallis ( f )
openly
arms, weapons, warfare
covered, concealed, hidden
a seething river
of rain, rain-filled, rain-caused
snow
Zephyr (the west wind)
warm, lukewarm
to flow, stream
crops
before, beforehand
edge, border, brink
to check, bound, enclose within borders
the Fabii (the members of the gens Fabia)
valley
discursus, -us (m)
impleo, -ere, implevi,
impletum
sterno, -ere, stravi,
stratum
metus, -us (m)
alter
insum, inesse, infui
fraus, fraudis ( f )
prosilio, -ire, prosilui
-ve (conj)
tempus, temporis (n)
resto, -are, restiti
perdo, -ere, perdidi,
perditum
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convoy, procession, cavalcade
to fill up
to flatten, level, trample
fear, dread
= of anyone else, for another [enemy]
to be in, be upon
deceit, treachery
to leap up, spring forth
or
circumstances, situation
to stand firm, stand one’s ground
to destroy, ruin, do away with
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Acknowledgement
Material from the following source was adapted for use in this examination:
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Ovid, Fasti, from http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ovid/ovid.fasti2.shtml (accessed 9 August 2012).
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