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Exercise 18

1. Do not then lose (sing.) such an opportunity as this, but rather let us, under your leadership, crush the eternal enemies of our country.

De tali occasione ne desis, sed potius te ducente hostes sempiternos patriae nostrae opprimamus.

4. Let us then refuse to be slaves, and have the courage not only to become free ourselves, but to assert our country's freedom also.

Nolamus deinde servi esse et audeamus non solum nos ipsi liberi fieri, sed etiam patriam in libertatem vindicare.

5. Therefore do not object to enduring everything on behalf of your suffering country and your exiled friends.

Noli igitur recusare omnia pro patria tua afflicta amicisque tuis in exilium pulsis perferre.

7. Let us be the same in the field (of battle) as we have ever been; as to the issue of the battle let the gods decide.

Tales militiae simus quales semper fuimus de cuius eventu iudicent dii.