March 14, 2011

5. Scipio de Consulibus




Duo cónsules,
quorum
alter inops erat,
alter autem avárus,
in senátu contendébant
uter
in Hispániam
ad bellum geréndum
mitténdus esset.
Inde
magna
inter patres dissensióne
orta,
rogátus senténtiam
Scípio Aemiliánus,
"Équidem," inquit,
"neutrum mitti
cénseo,
quia alter nihil habet,
álteri nihil est satis."


TEXT SOURCE: Selections from Latin Authors for Sight-Reading, by Everett Titsworth Tomlinson (1886). This book does not have a vocabulary list in the back.

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