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Now that class is back in session, I don't expect to get a lot of Caesar and Thucydides translated. No, it's back to actual class texts for me, which this semester means Cicero and Euripides. For the sake of honesty, I'm going to be putting up my pre-class translations, not the corrected stuff after I've gone through the translation in class with the prof and so forth.
(Weirdly, my Latin class is huge. Twenty people in a third-year Latin course! The prof seemed a bit alarmed by it. My Greek class is a much more standard twelve or so.)
In any case. Have some mildly awkward Cicero.
Pro Caelio, Chapter 1.
If anyone should be chance be present right now, ignorant of the laws of our courts and of our customs, he would certainly wonder what atrocity was so great to cause this, because during the festival days and public games, when all public businesses are halted, this one court was in session; and he would not doubt but that the defendant was accused of a crime so great that if it were ignored, the state could not stand. The same man, then he'd hear that it was a law which orders that a trial be held concerning seditious and wicked citizens who besiege the senate with weapons, destroy magistrates with violence, attack the republic daily; he would not disapprove, but ask what crime was involved in the court.
Then he'd hear that no misdeed, no audacious act, no violence was called into court, but a young man of brilliant talent, diligence, and generosity was being accused by his son, whom he himself would call--and had called--into court, and that he was attacked by the resources of a whore; he would not disapprove of the duty of Atrinus himself, but think that womanly passion ought to be restrained; and he would consider you all to be hard-working, who are allowed to be at leisure not even when it's a common period of leisure.
ETA: Class has now clarified some details of the second paragraph. Atrinus is the primary prosecutor; he's bringing charges against Caelius, who has 1) already brought charges against Bestia, the father of Atrinus, and 2) intends to bring charges against Bestia again in the future. The pronouns weren't real clear there.
(Weirdly, my Latin class is huge. Twenty people in a third-year Latin course! The prof seemed a bit alarmed by it. My Greek class is a much more standard twelve or so.)
In any case. Have some mildly awkward Cicero.
Pro Caelio, Chapter 1.
If anyone should be chance be present right now, ignorant of the laws of our courts and of our customs, he would certainly wonder what atrocity was so great to cause this, because during the festival days and public games, when all public businesses are halted, this one court was in session; and he would not doubt but that the defendant was accused of a crime so great that if it were ignored, the state could not stand. The same man, then he'd hear that it was a law which orders that a trial be held concerning seditious and wicked citizens who besiege the senate with weapons, destroy magistrates with violence, attack the republic daily; he would not disapprove, but ask what crime was involved in the court.
Then he'd hear that no misdeed, no audacious act, no violence was called into court, but a young man of brilliant talent, diligence, and generosity was being accused by his son, whom he himself would call--and had called--into court, and that he was attacked by the resources of a whore; he would not disapprove of the duty of Atrinus himself, but think that womanly passion ought to be restrained; and he would consider you all to be hard-working, who are allowed to be at leisure not even when it's a common period of leisure.
ETA: Class has now clarified some details of the second paragraph. Atrinus is the primary prosecutor; he's bringing charges against Caelius, who has 1) already brought charges against Bestia, the father of Atrinus, and 2) intends to bring charges against Bestia again in the future. The pronouns weren't real clear there.