Exercises 7
Answer Key
1 – 9 done in class on Monday.
10. Whoever you know had shamefully stolen the gold, the citiznes would have indicted that man on a charge of theft.
11. Those evil soldiers at least, who left behind their weapons on the plane after the battle, have stolen both the silver of Homer and his she-goats. May we then indict those men on a charge of theft.
12. May we be obeying at least the good teachers. For they teach by means of letters both skill and excellence. Indeed without skill and excellence young men do not fare well, you know.
13. Let us teach the five brothers the art of the wise poet. For the citizens might send gifts to the good poets, either crowns or gold.
14. The one orator writes long speeches; the other indicts.
15. Let us stop in the temple. For there we might sacrifice to the goddesses.
16. Homer teaches some, others he causes to be educated.
17. One man has some educated, another has others educated. (see vocab. note on ALLOS…)
18. Even thieves might be saved by rhetoric, at any rate, the art concerning arguments, since, you know, in court cases men without judgement are persuaded by words on the one hand, wise men by deeds on the other hand.
[I'M TRANSLATING PEITHO HERE AS PASSIVE, MIDDLE COULD WORK TOO, BUT NOT AS WELL IN MY VIEW.]
19. You would do shameful things, whoever of you should not cause the men in your house to be taught poems.
20. The matters of war, you know, are unclear. Let us then consult the gods about them now. Are we to dissolve the peace or not (said with emotion!)? For we might persuade the citizens to leave their houses.