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Cicero, ad Att. 5.1, Letter to his friend Atticus – lines 1-4nihil vidi tam mite, nihil tam placidum quammeus frater illo die erat in sororem tuam. sifuerat offensio ex ratione sumptus, nonapparuit.1 nihil, n. - nothingvideo, videre, vidi, visus - seetam - so, asmitis, mite - mild, gentlenihil, n. - nothingtam - so, asplacidus, placida, placidum - gentle, calmquam - as; than2 meus, mea, meum - myfrater, fratris, m. - brotherille, illa, illud - thatdies, diei, m. - daysum, esse, fui - bein - to, towards, in relation to; insoror, sororis, f. - sistertuus, tua, tuum - your (singular)si - if3 sum, esse, fui - beoffensio, offensionis, f. - offence, resentmentex - caused by, as a result of; out ofratio, rationis, f. - calculationsumptus, sumptus, m. - expenditurenon - not4 appareo, apparere, apparui - be apparent10 WJEC Level 2 Latin Literature Unit 9541 Love and Marriage
Follow your teacher's guidance over which notes to use and which questions to answer. The more time you havewith your teacher, the more questions can be ignored.This is part of a letter written in 51 BC by the famous orator Cicero to his lifelong friend Atticus. Cicero’s youngerbrother Quintus had married Atticus’ sister Pomponia. The incident related in this extract seems to be unfortunatelytypical of the nature of their marriage.It’s convenient to refer to the writer of this letter as Cicero, the name by which he is normally known, and describehis brother as Quintus. Strictly speaking, of course, they were both called Cicero: Marcus Tullius Cicero and QuintusTullius Cicero.1. Read lines 1-4 (aloud if possible) or listen to the audio on the CSCP website.2. Study the vocabulary for these lines.3. Read lines 1-4 (or listen to the audio) again.Check4. (i) Pick out and translate the two adjectives in line 1 which Cicero uses to describe his brother. Do not worryat this point about the fact that they do not have masculine endings.(ii)Translate this version of lines 1-2; tam is conveniently translated as as. Refer to the foot of the page ifnecessary.nihil erat tam mite quam meus frater.(iii) Translate a longer version of lines 1-2. Take care over the correct translation of the personal ending of vidi(“I”, “you”, “he”, “we” or “they”?). Refer to the foot of the page if necessary.nihil vidi tam mite, nihil tam placidum quam meus frater erat.(iv) Finally, translate the whole of lines 1-2. illo die tells you when Cicero’s brother behaved in this way, and insororem tuam tells you to whom he was behaving. If you are not clear whose sister is being referred to,look back to the introduction at the top of this page.5. The day mentioned by Cicero is the day on which he, Quintus, Pomponia and various friends, relatives andofficials were together at Cicero’s estate at Arpinum, on the eve of Cicero’s departure for the province of Ciliciaat the north-east corner of the Mediterranean. Cicero was to govern Cilicia for a year; Quintus and some of theothers were going to accompany him.6. What tense of sum is fuerat (line 3)? If in doubt, see the Cambridge Latin Grammar, foot of page 40. If youcompare sum with the verbs on page 29, paragraph 5, you will see that sum forms this tense exactly as theydo; it starts as if it were a perfect tense (beginning with fu-, just as the other verbs start with portav-, docu-,trax- and audiv-) and then adds -eram, -eras, -erat, etc.7. Pick out and translate the nominative singular noun in line 3 which tells you what unpleasant feeling hadperhaps existed.8. What might have caused any unpleasant feeling, according to line 3? (ex has an unusual meaning; thevocabulary suggests caused by and as a result of.)9. Was the unpleasant feeling (if it ever existed) still obvious when the party gathered together? Quote andtranslate the word, or pair of words (lines 3-4), which tells you this.10. Cicero is writing about something he had already discussed with Atticus, so he omits various details whichwere familiar to both of them. Can you work out whether Quintus is supposed to have been resentful towardsPomponia, or Pomponia resentful towards Quintus? Lines 1-2 give you a clue.11. If resentment had been caused over money (ex ratione sumptus, line 3), do you think that one partner in themarriage had accused the other of overspending, or underspending? (This can only be guesswork, but you mayfeel that one situation is more likely than the other.)12. Translate lines 1-4.Answers4. (ii) Nothing was as mild as my brother.(iii) I have seen (or saw) nothing as mild, nothing as gentle as my brother was.(mite and placidum have neuter endings because they describe the neuter noun nihil.)WJEC Level 2 Latin Literature Unit 9541 Love and Marriage 11
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Page 17 and 18: 28. Read lines 8-11 (aloud if possi
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Page 27 and 28: The poems of Catullus, who lived in
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