Answers to Exercises

Translations of the labels:

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• avunculus meus - my maternal uncle (in his letter, Pliny the Younger is writing about his uncle, Pliny the Elder)

• "fortes fortuna adiuvat!" - "Fortune helps the brave!" (what Pliny says when he decides to press on with his rescue attempt even as conditions worsen)

• mons - mountain

• ut se tanto discrimini eriperet orabat - she was begging him to rescue her from such great danger (a plea from a friend of Pliny's, sent to him in a letter)

• rectum cursum recta gubernacula in periculum tenet - he [Pliny the Elder] held [historic present] a straight course with a straight rudder into the danger

• navibus cinis incidebat - ash was falling on the ships

• mare - sea

• quadriremis - warship