Medieval Latin Quiz 3 Study Guide

Quibus vir Domini Augustinus fertur minitans praedixisse, quia si pacem cum fratribus accipere nollent, bellum ab hostibus forent accepturi; et si nationi Anglorum noluissent viam vitae praedicare, per horum manus ultionem essent mortis passuri.

To whom the man of God, Augustine, is said to have threatfully prophesied, that, if they would not have peace with brethren, they should have war from enemies; and if they would not preach to the English nation the way of life, they should through their hands suffer the vengeance of death.

Quod ita per omnia, ut praedixerat, divino agente iudicio patratum est.

Which thing in all points was brought so to pass, as he had foresaid, by the working of God’s judgment.

Siquidem post haec ipse de quo diximus, rex Anglorum fortissimus Aedilfrid, collecto grandi exercitu, ad Civitatem Legionum, quae a gente Anglorum Legacaestir, a Brettonibus autem rectius Carlegion appellatur, maximam gentis perfidae stragem dedit.

For it happened afterwards that the very same king of the English of whom we have spoken, the mighty Ethelfrith, gathering a large army, made at the City of Legions (which the English nation call Legacaestir, but the Britons better Carlegion) a very great slaughter of this heretical people.

Cumque bellum acturus videret sacerdotes eorum, qui ad exorandum Deum pro milite bellum agente convenerant, seorsum in tutiore loco consistere, sciscitabatur qui essent hi, quidve acturi illo convenissent.

And being now ready to give battle, when he spied their priests (which had come together to pray to God for the soldiers fighting in the war) to stand apart from the rest in a safer place, he demanded what these men were and to what end they had collected there.

Erant autem plurimi eorum de monasterio Bancor, in quo tantus fertur fuisse numerus monachorum, ut cum in septem portiones esset cum praepositis sibi rectoribus monasterium divisum, nulla harum portio minus quam trecentos homines haberet, qui omnes de labore manuum suarum vivere solebant.

Now the most part of these priests were of the monastery of Bangor, where there is said to have been so great a number of monks, that this monastery being divided into 7 companies, with each company his several assigned ruler, none of these companies had less than 300 persons, who did all ever live by the labour of their own hands.

Horum ergo plurimi ad memoratam aciem, peracto ieiunio triduano, cum aliis orandi causa convenerant, habentes defensorem nomine Brocmailum, qui eos intentos precibus a barbarorum gladiis protegeret.

A great number therefore of them, after three days’ fasting, had come with others to the aforesaid army to pray for the soldiers, having by them a defender named Brocmail who should keep them from the swords of the barbarians while they thus earnestly bent to their prayers.

Quorum causam adventus cum intellexisset rex Aedilfrid, ait: “Ergo si adversum nos ad Deum suum clamant, profecto et ipsi quamvis arma non ferant, contra nos pugnant qui adversis nos inprecationibus persequuntur.”

And when king Ethelfrith had understood the cause of their coming thither, he said: “Then if these men cry and call upon their God against us, truly though they themselves have no armour, yet they fight against us, who pursue us with curses to bring evil upon us.”

Oraculum, i

Oracle, prophecy (n)

apud

Among; In the writings of

suscipio, suscipere, suscepi, susceptus

To undertake/accept

insidiae, arum

Ambush (f) pl.

nuntius, i

Messenger (m)

tertius, a, um

third

nox, noctis

Night (f)

exul, exulis

Exile (m)

salutaris, e

Salvation/healthful/wholesome

offero, offere, obtuli, oblatus

To offer

copiosus, a, um

Plentiful

dispono, disponere, disposui, disposius

To place, arrange, distribute

adiicio, adiicere, adieci, adiectum

To throw to

potis, e

Rather, more

foris

Out of doors, outside

saluto, salutare, salutavi, salutatus

To greet

quare

in what way, how

quiesco, quiescere, quievi, quietus

to rest/keep calm

beneficium, i

Service, kindness

eripio, eripere, eripui, ereptus

To rescue

dexter, dextra, dextrum

right (directional)

caput, capitis

Head, person (n)