Avunculus Meus - Lines 13-23 - Latin OCR GCSE Revision

haec inter medios labores urbisque fremitum. in secessu solum balinei tempus studiis eximebatur (cum dico 'balinei', de interioribus loquor; nam dum destringitur tergiturque, audiebat aliquid aut dictabat).

These things (took place) during the middle of the tolls and noise of the city. In (his country) retreat, only bath time was taken away from studies (when I say "bath", I am talking about the inner (rooms); for while he was being scraped and wiped down, he would listen to something or dictate)

in itinere quasi solutus ceteris curis, huic uni vacabat:

On a journey, as if released from all other anxieties, he had time for this alone:

ad latus notarius cum libro et pugillaribus, cuius manus hieme manicis muniebantur, ut ne caeli quidem asperitas ullum studii tempus eriperet;

at his side (there would be) a secretary with a book and writing tablet, whose hands were protected with mittens in winter, so that not even the harshness of the weather might take away any study time;

qua ex causa Romae quoque sella vehebatur.

for this reason he rode in a sedan chair at Rome also.

repeto me correptum ab eo, quod ambularem: 'poteras' inquit 'has horas non perdere'; nam perire omne tempus arbitrabatur, quod studiis non impenderetur. vale.

I recall that I was rebuked by him because I walked: he said, "You could have not wasted these hours"; for he thought that all time, which was not spent on studies, was wasted. Farewell