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Question 1

Audires ululatus feminarum, infantum quiritatus, clamores

Answer 1

You would have heard the wailing of women, the protesting cries of babies, the shouts

Question 2

virorum; alii parentes alii liberos alii coniuges vocibus requirebant,

Answer 2

of men; some were searching for their parents, others for children, others for spouses;

Question 3

vocibus noscitabant; hi suum casum, illi suorum miserabantur;

Answer 3

by their voices, they recognized them; these were lamenting their own misfortune; those the misfortune of their family members;

Question 4

erant qui metu mortis mortem precarentur;

Answer 4

there were those who prayed for death from fear of death;

Question 5

multi ad deos manus

Answer 5

many raised their hands to the gods

Question 6

tollere, plures nusquam iam deos ullos aeternamque illam et

Answer 6

more were taking the view that now nowhere were there any gods and that the eternal night

Question 7

novissimam noctem mundo interpretabantur.

Answer 7

was also the final one for the world.

Question 8

Nec defuerunt qui

Answer 8

Nor were there lacking those who

Question 9

fictis mentitisque terroribus vera pericula augerent.

Answer 9

increased the true dangers with invented and untrue terrors.

Question 10

Aderant qui

Answer 10

There were present those who

Question 11

Miseni illud ruisse illud ardere falso sed credentibus nuntiabant.

Answer 11

were reporting that at Misenum one part had collapsed and the other was burning, false, but to people believing them.