Exercise 17
2. I cannot refrain from blaming those who were ready to hand over our lives, liberties, rights, and fortunes to our deadliest enemies.Facere non possum quin eos vituperem permissuros hosti crudelissimo vitam, libertatem, ius, fortunam nostram.
7. We were within a very little of all being killed, or at least of being wounded or cut off either by famine or by disease.
Non multum afuit ut interficeremur nos omnes vel saltem vulneraremur vel cibi inopia vel morbo absumeremur.
8. Nothing, he said, had ever prevented him from defending the freedom and privileges of his countrymen.
Nihil, inquit, unquam ei obstiterat quominus libertatem iuraque civium defenderet.
12. Such was his terror of Caesar's victory, that he could scarcely be restrained from committing suicide.
Victoria Caesaris eum sic terruit ut vix inhiberi posset quin mortem sibi conscisceret.