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Latin
Suetonius - Section C
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| spectaculorum plurima et varia genera edidit: iuvenales, circenses, scaenicos ludos, gladiatorium munus. | He gave very many and various types of shows: youth games, chariot races, shows for the stage and gladiator shows. |
| iuvenalibus senes quoque consulares anusque matronas recepit ad lusum. | He welcomed old men (including consulars), old ladies and married women to the youth games. |
| circensibus loca equiti secreta a ceteris tribuit commisitque etiam camelorum quadrigas. | At the chariot races he set aside seats for the knights away from the rest of the people and even put together four-horse chariots drawn by camels. |
| ludis, quos pro aeternitate imperii susceptos appellari maximos voluit, ex utroque ordine et sexu plerique ludicras partes sustinuerunt; | At the games, which he wanted to be called the greatest, undertaken for the permanence of his reign, many people from both orders and sexes took part on the stage. |
| notissimus eques Romanus elephanto supersidens per catadromum decucurrit; | A very famous Roman knight, riding an elephant, ran down from a tightrope. |
| inducta Afrani togata, quae incendium inscribitur, concessumque ut scaenici ardentis domus supellectilem diriperent ac sibi haberent; | A Roman drama by Afranius was put on, which was called the Fire, and it was allowed for the actors to plunder and keep for themselves furniture from the burning house; |
| sparsa et populo missilia omnium rerum per omnes dies: singula cotidie milia avium cuiusque generis, | presents were scattered to the people, presents of all types, throughout everyday: on each day he gave away thousands of birds of every type, |
| multiplex penus, tesserae frumentariae, vestis, aurum, argentum, gemmae, margaritae, tabulae pictae, mancipia, iumenta atque etiam mansuetae ferae, novissime naves, insulae, agri. | numerous provisions, tokens for grain, clothing, gold, silver, jewels, pearls, paintings, slaves, oxen and even tamed wild beasts, and finally very new ships, blocks of flats and land. |
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