pg. 28

Question 1

16 Paulum reluxit, quod non dies nobis, sed adventantis ignis

Answer 1

It became a little light again, which did not seem daylight to us,

Question 2

indicium videbatur.

Answer 2

but evidence of advancing fire.

Question 3

Et ignis quidem longius substitit; tenebrae

Answer 3

And fire indeed stood farther away; there was darkness

Question 4

rursus cinis rursus, multus et gravis

Answer 4

again, ash again, much and heavy.

Question 5

Hunc identidem assurgentes

Answer 5

Rising up again and again,

Question 6

excutiebamus;

Answer 6

we shook this off;

Question 7

operti alioqui atque etiam oblisi pondere essemus.

Answer 7

otherwise we would have been covered and even crushed by the weight.

Question 8

17 Possem gloriari non gemitum mihi, non vocem parum fortem

Answer 8

I could boast that for me no groan, no cry less brave

Question 9

in tantis periculis excidisse, nisi mecum omnibus,

Answer 9

escaped in such great dangers, if I had not believed that I was perishing

Question 10

omnia mecum perire misero, magno tamen mortalitatis solacio credidissem.

Answer 10

along with everything and everything with me, which is the wretched yet great comfort of mortality.