UNIT 4 EXERCISE QUESTIONS

Note: on page 102 the authors say that ουκ εθελω can be translated as “refuse” and so I have chosen that option in the answers below.

Section I

1. If the muses teach the good poet well, then he will write a fine book concerning the sacrifices in the marketplace.
2. On the one hand, the battle is bad to the soldiers; on the other hand, victory is good.
3. O friend soldier, if you were guarding the land with the just men, the young men from the island would not be destroying the peace.
4. Have you stationed the find and good hoplites at the bridge in order that they may guard the country after the battle?
5. If the poets wrote books concerning justice, to the muses, the goddesses of poets, that they sacrificed. For the poets are just.
6. If you should destroy the democracy, O bad citizens, you would destroy even the peace in the beautiful islands.
7. If you had sent the soldiers into the battle with the hoplites, we would have stationed the young men in the marketplace in order that they might guard the houses.
8. On the one hand, the soul of the young man is just; on the other hand, the soul of the soldier is unjust.
9. I sacrifice to the beautiful goddess, if you send a good animal.
10. If we send bad men into war, we will bury good men.
11. The good and just citizens are worthy of rule. For they want to stop the bad war.
12. The battle is the fate of the soldier.
13. In order that he might write a good book, the just poet was sacrificing a good animal to the gods.
14. If the beloved Homer had refused to be sacrificing to the goddess, he would not have written a good book concerning virtue of men.
15. O friends, if on account of the will of the god we destroy the democracy, we will send the citizens unworthy of rule out of the country to the strangers on the island.
16. Good, of course, is the day of victory to the men.
17. If the works of the gods should teach the young man in the house, he would refuse to send weapons to the unjust soldiers.
18. If the god commanded the beloved poet to be teaching the young men, he sacrificed to the muse.
19. Since the six messengers from the strangers sent gifts to the council and the assembly, the people refuse to station the good hoplites for battle.
20. O young man, if you were sending gold or a crown to the hoplites worthy of a prize, they would not be destroying the peace.
21. If you do not stop the battle, we will send good hoplites through the country to the sea in order that they may release the just friends in the house.
22. The good citizens send gifts if the poets worthy of gold write books concerning justice.
23. Long ago you buried the unjust citizens at sea, but now you send the evil, the unjust, and the unworthy into the unattractive island.
24. The soul of the evil citizen is unworthy of a prize. And yet you want to send gifts to evil citizens.
25. If you are not sending gold, I refuse to teach the craft the good young men.
26. Before the battle
    With the soldiers
    After the war
    Concerning words
    Around the houses
    With the gods
    To teach
    To have stationed
27. The good men
    The young men are good
    The good bridge
    The bridge is good
    The poet is beloved
28. To the citizens, the poet is worthy to teach the young men.

Section II

The aspect isn’t always clear in the English sentence you’re given to translate, thus I have provided my preferred choice in the main line and any obvious alternative choices in the square parentheses.

1. ἐὰν ὁ ποιητῆς γράφη ἀγαθὸν βιβλίον περὶ μάχης, οἱ νεανίαι λύσουσιν τὴν εἰρηνην
2. εἰ θύσαιτε ζῷα τοι̃ς θεοι̃ς, παύσαιτε τὸν πόλεμον ἂν
   [also possible is θύοιτε and παύοιτε]
3. εἰ ἐφύλαξα τὴν νῆσον, ἐφύλαξες τὴν γέφυραν ἂν
4. οἱ πολῖται ούκ ἠθέλησαν πέμψαι ζῷα ἵνα οἱ ἐν τῇ νήσῳ στρατιῶται θύοιεν τοι̃ς θεοι̃ς
   [also possible is θύσειεν and θύσαιεν]
5. ἡ ψύχη τοῦ ἀδίκου ἀνθρὡπου ούκ ἀξία τοῦ ἂθλου