Practice Language

8. Practice language
I’m learning Latin again. I studied it for five years and used to be good enough to translate the Aeneid. I’m getting back into it and want you to help me brush up.

I’ll give you a passage I’m translating and my attempt. Ask me questions and nudge me in the right direction—don’t just give me your exact translation. If I’m missing a word definition, decide when the right time is to fill me in.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?

My attempt: “For how long, Catiline, will you abuse my patience?”