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Caesar 7.72

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 1hrs 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Quibus rebus cognitis ex perfugis et captivis: choose the literal translation (and not the google translate translation)

a)

Learning these proceedings from the deserters and captives

b)

With these things having been learned from deserters and captives

c)

When the deserters were known to him from among the ones who had fled

2.

What were the things that Caesar had learned about from deserters?

a)

that Vercingetorix had sent his cavalry for reinforcements and was going to try to shelter in place with the Alesians and remaining soldiers behind the walls to live on what food they have

b)

that Vercingetorix was planning an escape in order to get more supplies and food for the people

c)

that the Romans had deserted to the Gauls and were about to lead an attack on the weak spots of the Romans' walls

3.

Caesar haec genera


munitionis instituit

a)

Caesar wrote the articles of his constitution

b)

Caesar build a trench along the fortification

c)

Caesar adopted the following kinds of fortifications

d)

Caesar began these types of fortification

4.

Fossam pedum viginti directis lateribus duxit

a)

he brought a trench with perpendicular sides

b)

he dug a 20 feet deep ditch with straight sides

c)

he led his men to dig 20 straight trenches

5.

quoniam tantum esset necessario spatium complexus

a)

because there was just enough space necessary

b)

because he surrounded just as much space as was necessary

c)

because it was necessary to have space for hugs

d)

since he necessarily embraced a space of

6.

nec facile totum opus corona militum cingeretur

a)

so that entire constructions wouldn't be surrounded easily by a ring of soldiers

b)

Now all the work could not be easily surrounded by a line

c)

nor entirely easily is the work a crown of the military

7.

ne de improviso aut noctu ad munitiones hostium multitudo advolaret

a)

so that a crowd of the enemy could not rush at the fortifications by surprise or at night

b)

nor on account of the improvised fortifications would the enemies fly at the multitude at night

c)

neither were the fortifications improvised nor rushed by the enemy

d)

the multitude of the strongholds of the enemy should suddenly, or by night, would fly to the

8.

aut interdiu tela in nostros operi destinatos conicere possent.

a)

or that they would be able to convey our weapons to their destinations

b)

nor would our men corner the weapons against the work's destinations

c)

nor by day would they be able to throw weapons against our men occupied with the works.

9.

duas fossas quindecim pedes latas,


eadem altitudine perduxit,

a)

he dug out two ditches 15 feet wide and the same in height

b)

two trenches brought forth 15 foot soldiers to the heights

10.

quarum interiorem campestribus ac demissis locis


aqua ex flumine derivata complevit.

a)

he filled the river's water all the way up to the fields and low spots in the interior

b)

the plains of the interior, and the insertion of the places of which


the water from the river which flowed they were ended.

c)

the interior of these, with their level and low places, he filled with water drawn from the river

11.

Post eas aggerem ac vallum duodecim pedum exstruxit

a)

Behind them he builds a hill and a valley with twelve foot soldiers

b)

After them, he extruded a mound and a valley for twelve feet

c)

Behind these he raised a rampart and wall twelve feet high

12.

Huic loricam pinnasque adiecit grandibus cervis eminentibus

a)

to this he added a fence and battlements jutting out with enormous stag-horns

b)

to this he attached a breastplate and wings with a giant surging stag

c)

To this he added a large stag, and to eminent examples of this on the breastplate of

13.

ad commissuras pluteorum atque aggeris

a)

ad the point where leaden weights fell down

b)

to the junctures of the seige-covers and battlements

c)

at the commisioners of Pluto's anger

14.

<qui ascensum hostium tardarent>


Google translate says this means

"to prevent the enemy from scaling it"


The real translation is:

"which might slow down the ascent of the enemies."


Google gets what wrong?

a)

it doesn't get the overall purpose of the defensive structures correct but it is literally correct for instance, "tardarent" means to prevent

b)

it gets the overall meaning correct, but isn't literally correct, for instance, "tardarent" means to slow down

15.

"turres toto opere circumdedit"

--> google translate says it means "the entire work with the towers"

Google translate totally didn't translate one of the Latin words. What part of speech is the word that google translate entirely forgot about?

a)

noun plural d.o. "turres"

b)

adjective singular ablative "toto"

c)

noun singular ablative "opere"

d)

verb "circumdedit"

16.

quae pedes LXXX inter se distarent


How many feet apart were the towers?

a)

30

b)

50

c)

18

d)

80