- Hieme ventī in marī sunt gravēs.
In the winter the winds on the seee are severe.
- Aestāte agricolae in agris labōrābant.
In the summer the farmers were working in the fields.
- Prīmā lūce ad Caesarem venient.
At dawn they will go to Caesar.
- Caesar bellum fortibus cum hostibus gessit.
Caesar wages war with strong enemies.
- Omnēs prōvinciās paucīs annis superāvit.
Within a few years he conquered all the provinces.
- Quō tempore noctis in urbem vēnistī?
At what time of night did you come to the city.
- Secundā hōrā proelī decem explōrātōrēs capiunt.
In the second hour of battle they capture ten scouts.
- Nūntius eō tempore lēgātō litterās dēmōnstrāvit.
At this time, the messenger showed the letters to the lieutenant.
- Welcome summer will come in a short time.
Aestās grata veniet paucō tempore.
- At the second hour of the night
Secundā hōrā noctis ea imperia audīvimus.
- He found ten wounds on the body of the foot soldier.
Decem iniūriās in corpō peditis invēnit.
- At dawn Caesar sent this cohort between the hill and the mountain.
Prīmā lūce inter colem et montem Caesar eam cohortes mīsit.
- They all fled from the province in the first year of the war.
Omnēs ex provinciā primō annō belli fugāvērunt.
- Why did they not carry on war with the Romans in the winter?
Cur hieme non bellum cum Rōmānīs gessērunt.
- Amīcus ōlim Spartānum rogāvit: "Cūr mūrōs nōn habet Sparta?" Spantānus respondit: "Nostra urbs mūrōs optimōs habet, virtūtem incolārum fortium."
A friend once asked a Spartan: "Why does Sparta not have walls?" The Spartan repsonded: "Our city has the best walls, the virtue of its strong inhabitants."
- Rēx Spartānus ōlim dixit: "Meī cīvēs numquam rogāvērunt, 'Quot sunt hostēs?' sed 'Ubi sunt?'"
The Spartan king once said: "My citizens never asked, 'How many are the enemy?' but 'Where are they?'"
- Hostis ante pugnam Spartānō dixit: "Sōlem propteer pīlōrum multitūdinem et sagittārum nōn vidēbitis." "In umbrā igitur pugnābimus," respondit Spartānus.
A enemy said to a Spartan before a battle: "Because of the many spears and arrows you will not see the sun." "Therefore we will fight in the shadow," responded the Spartan.