LNM1 Ch 4: PROFUGA PRAEMIUM VULT

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31 questions
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What grammar will we learn in chapter 4?

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What does "Aurī sacra famēs" mean?

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Who wrote those words?

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What do they condemn?

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According to the Reading, who was, perhaps, the greatest of all Roman writers of Prose?

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What was Cicero famous as?

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The passage you will read comes from one of Cicero’s philosophical essays. What is the Latin title of that essay? (Not the title the textbook gives the passage - what did Cicero call it?)

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In that essay, Cicero discusses the relationship between which two concepts (use the Latin terms)?

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When did Cicero live?

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When did the event described in the passage happen?

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What was the Greek city of
Tarentum alarmed by?

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Who did Tarentum make an alliance with?

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What do we call a victory won at an unacceptable price?

Translate the following passage.
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PROFUGA PRAEMIUM VULT

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Pyrrhus, rēx praeclārus, bellum cum Rōmānīs gerit.

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Terram in Ītaliā habēre vult.

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Profuga ē castrīs Pyrrhī clam fugit et in castra Rōmānōrum ambulat.

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Nōn timet profuga, sed Fābricium vidēre vult.

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Fābricius est cōnsul et dux Rōmānōrum.

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“Dēbēs māgnum praemium mihi dare,”

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inquit profuga;

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“sī praemium mihi dās, habeō in animō clam intrāre in Pyrrhī castra et Pyrrhum venēnō necāre.”

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Fābricius autem victōriam dolō habēre nōn vult, sed bellō iūstō.

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Itaque virōs armātōs vocat.

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Praemium nōn dat profugae, sed vincula.

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Iubet virōs armātōs cum profugā ad Pyrrhī castra ambulāre et profugam vīnctum Pyrrhō dare.

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With whom are the Romans at war?

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What does Pyrrhus want in Italy?

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When the deserter comes to the Roman camp, whom does he need to see?

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What is the deserter’s plan?

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Why doesn’t Fabricius accept the deserter’s proposal?