Exercises, Unit 6

Answer Key

  1. He will array five of the soldiers to the sea side in order that the six messengers may not be hindered by the men on the plane.
  2. Let us harm the unjust women on the one hand, on the other hand let us send goats and silver to the just women.
  3. Homer, whose eyes were not preserved by the gods, used to teach young men and old the art of words.
  4. Are goats being sacrificed to the gods by slaves at least?
  5. If you send the old men with guards out of the country for five stades, they will not be harmed by the evil strangers who were ordered to break the peace.
  6. The grace at least of good men is not in the body but in the soul.
  7. After the victory, at least, the guards on the one hand were dancing, the enemy whom we harmed were being guarded by the old men in the marketplace.
  8. If the land were well governed, we would be ruling also the islands.
  9. If, you know, the wise men should rule the land, you would conduct the affairs of the council and the assembly by day on the one hand, on the other hand by night you would dance.
  10. The hope of victory is not, you know, a sufficient thing in battle at least.
  11. Let us indeed destroy the democracy. For frightening things have been done to the people.
  12. If on the first night six of the dancers had danced well, animals would have been sacrificed to the goddess by the wise citizens. For dancers are dear to the gods.
  13. The young men, for whom at least books about the freedom of the ancients were written by Homer, will be arrayed into battle within five days for the sake of the people.
  14. The wisdom of an unjust woman is a frightful thing you know, old sir.
  15. The ancients on the one hand used to be ruled by good men, the men of today on the other hand are slaves to men unworthy of ruling.
  16. Foreigners on the one hand used to sacrifice a horse before the beginning of a war, the Greeks on the other hand didn't.
  17. Fate for the body is death, but the soul at least is deathless.
  18. The guard, who was send during the day to the island prevented the slaves for five nights from harming the free women.
  19. The things of the sea are fearsome, for wise men at least.
  20. Brother, the gifts, by which you persuade free Greeks to be slaves to evil men, are evil!
  21. Since the war at least was stopped, the fear of the people was destroyed.
  22. The poet, you know, by whom at least/indeed books about small things have been written, is evil.

    23. [the GE is really interesting here: I've included a servicable, but clunky slash "at least/indeed" but what's it really mean, you ask? it means to focus you in on the "by whom" in order to both emphasize and limit it. How can we get that into nicer English, without a clunky slash… how about this:

    The poet, you know, the one by whom books about small things have been written, is evil.

    I like this rendering better than the clunky one I give as a rough and ready version — the English does something pretty close to what the Greek does — focuses and limits.]

  23. Friend, don't persuade by means of big words good men to do unjust and evil things.
  24. If just men govern, the unjust men, by whom the people are harmed, are sent from the land.
  25. Are we to (with furrowed brow) write a book about goats, if the citizens send money?

    26. [this person has taken a present general conditional and replaced the usual form of an apodosis, future indicative, with a deliberative question. This will not throw you, so long as you remember what each subjunctive is doing — see p. 146.]

  26. If you were (ever) taught by poets, who are good men, you (always) used to fare well. (intrans. use of PRATTW — see vocab. Note)
  27. Wisdom is not a small gift indeed.
  28. Wise men are evil according to the judgement of the old man at least.
  29. Arguments against the Greeks are evil. And, you know, (="moreover," also "although") you used to write long arguments at night against the Greeks.