Pliny, Letters 9.6 - Not at the races - Flashcards in GCSE Latin

omne hoc tempus inter pugillares ac libellos iucundissima quiete transmisi.

I have spent all this time among writing tablets and books in the most pleasant tranquility.

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"quemadmodum" inquis "in urbe potuisti?" circenses erant, quo genere spectaculi ne levissime quidem teneor.

"How?" You ask," were you able to do that in Rome?" There were games by which kind of spectacle I am not even in the slightest captivated.

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nihil novum nihil varium, nihil quod non semel spectasse sufficiat.

There is nothing new, nothing different, nothing which it is not enough to have seen once.

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quo magis miror tot milia virorum tam pueriliter identidem cupere currentes equos, insistentes curribus homines videre.

I am rather amazed that so many thousands of men so childishly, again and again, want to see horses run again and men standing on horses.

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si tamen aut velocitate equorum aut hominum arte traherentur, esset ratio non nulla;

If, however, they are attracted by either the speed of the horses or the skill of the men, there would be some sense to it;

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"How?" You ask," were you able to do that in Rome?" There were games by which kind of spectacle I am not even in the slightest captivated.

"quemadmodum" inquis "in urbe potuisti?" circenses erant, quo genere spectaculi ne levissime quidem teneor.

There is nothing new, nothing different, nothing which it is not enough to have seen once.

I am rather amazed that so many thousands of men so childishly, again and again, want to see horses run again and men standing on horses.

If, however, they are attracted by either the speed of the horses or the skill of the men, there would be some sense to it;

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