Postremo die classum (Calling all Latinists)
Well, I finished my paper and translation, both due yesterday. Neither was as good as I would have liked, but now that they're done, I'm glad. I was pretty proud of the intro to my paper, since I worked hard on putting it into Latin. But since it took me so long just to write the first three paragraphs, I realized that it had been a mistake to tell Dr. G. that I would write a shorter simpler paper than he had assigned, but that I would do it in Latin. Still, here's the Latin part. To any Latinists who happen by here: Give me pointers if you've got'em!
Dē Cicerōne Pompeiōque
Novī Hominēs in Rē Pūblicā Obsolētā
Post bellum civile dictātūramque Sullae, omnia erant mūtāta. Propter āctiōnēs nōvās Mariī Sullaeque, ac propter rēs secundās eārundem āctiōnum, nunc iam virī vīdēbant ā maiōribus trādita īnstitūta esse infirma, et in tālī tempore imperium ā singulāre forte sibi rapī posse. Quā rē eādem, hominēs mūnicipālēs rūsticīve, quibus rem pūblicam attingere prius nōn licūisset, nunc ad honōrēs ascendere poterant. Sed, ut saepe sīc est, hominēs quī āb imperiō diū exclūsī sint, honōribus acceptīs, magnī idem institūtum maximē aestimābunt et mālēbunt cōnservāre quam subvertere. Duō ex hīs 'novīs hominibus' erant Pompeius et Cicerō. Uterque cupīvit approbātiōnem reī pūblicae; neuter erant tam audax, ut rem pūblicam, cupīditātis regendī causā, exstingueret. Haec modestia est ruīna facta ambōbus virīs.
Cicerō Pompeiusque nōn erant optimī "quibus omnia populī rōmānī beneficia dormientibus dēferuntur," ergō arte ingeniōque honōrēs sibi capiendī erant. Ut Cicerō ait, "Duae sint artēs, igitur, quae possint locāre hominēs in amplissimō gradū dignitātis, ūna imperātōris, altera ōrātōris bonī." Haec verba erant novīs hominibus maximē vēra, cum fructūs domī nōbilis amīcitiārumque sibi dēessent. Cicerō hanc ōrātōris, Pompeius illam imperātōris, artem ēlēgit.
Cn. Pompēius Magnus est Pīcēnī 648 a.u.c. (106 BCE) nātus. Pompēius adolescēns ūtiliātēs vīrium mīlitārium in rē pūblicā ā patre, Pompēiō Strabōne, didicerat, et nātūrāliter exemplum patris secūtus est. Hāc 'arte imperātōris' ēlectā, Pompeius prīmum occāsiōnem artis imperātōris exercendae carpsit. Cum Sulla ex stipendiō contrā Mithridātem cum exercitū in Italiam redīsset Rōmam incessum, Pompeius trēs legiōnēs conscrīpsit ad exercitum Sullae adiuvandum.
Dē Cicerōne Pompeiōque
Novī Hominēs in Rē Pūblicā Obsolētā
Post bellum civile dictātūramque Sullae, omnia erant mūtāta. Propter āctiōnēs nōvās Mariī Sullaeque, ac propter rēs secundās eārundem āctiōnum, nunc iam virī vīdēbant ā maiōribus trādita īnstitūta esse infirma, et in tālī tempore imperium ā singulāre forte sibi rapī posse. Quā rē eādem, hominēs mūnicipālēs rūsticīve, quibus rem pūblicam attingere prius nōn licūisset, nunc ad honōrēs ascendere poterant. Sed, ut saepe sīc est, hominēs quī āb imperiō diū exclūsī sint, honōribus acceptīs, magnī idem institūtum maximē aestimābunt et mālēbunt cōnservāre quam subvertere. Duō ex hīs 'novīs hominibus' erant Pompeius et Cicerō. Uterque cupīvit approbātiōnem reī pūblicae; neuter erant tam audax, ut rem pūblicam, cupīditātis regendī causā, exstingueret. Haec modestia est ruīna facta ambōbus virīs.
Cicerō Pompeiusque nōn erant optimī "quibus omnia populī rōmānī beneficia dormientibus dēferuntur," ergō arte ingeniōque honōrēs sibi capiendī erant. Ut Cicerō ait, "Duae sint artēs, igitur, quae possint locāre hominēs in amplissimō gradū dignitātis, ūna imperātōris, altera ōrātōris bonī." Haec verba erant novīs hominibus maximē vēra, cum fructūs domī nōbilis amīcitiārumque sibi dēessent. Cicerō hanc ōrātōris, Pompeius illam imperātōris, artem ēlēgit.
Cn. Pompēius Magnus est Pīcēnī 648 a.u.c. (106 BCE) nātus. Pompēius adolescēns ūtiliātēs vīrium mīlitārium in rē pūblicā ā patre, Pompēiō Strabōne, didicerat, et nātūrāliter exemplum patris secūtus est. Hāc 'arte imperātōris' ēlectā, Pompeius prīmum occāsiōnem artis imperātōris exercendae carpsit. Cum Sulla ex stipendiō contrā Mithridātem cum exercitū in Italiam redīsset Rōmam incessum, Pompeius trēs legiōnēs conscrīpsit ad exercitum Sullae adiuvandum.