On Death by Cicero

Sed quid duces et principes numinem cur legiones scribat Cato saepe alacres in eum locum profectas unde redituras se non arbitrarentur?  Pari animo Lacedaemonii in Thermophylis occiderunt, in quos Simonides:

            Dic, hospes, Spartae nos te hic vidisse lacentis,

            Dum sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur.

Viros commemoro.  Qualis tandem Lacaena?  Quae, cum filium in proelium misisset et interfectum audisset, “Idcirco,” inquit, “genueram ut esset qui pro patria mortem non dubitaret occumbere.” 

…..Admoneor ut aliquid etiam de humatione et sepulture dicendum existimem….Socrates, rogatus a Critone quem ad modum sepeliri vellet, “Multam vero,” inquit, “operam, amici, frustra consumpsi.  Critoni enim nostro non persuasi me hinc avoluturum, neque mei quicquam relicturum …… Sed, mihi crede, (Crito), nemo me vestrum, cum hinc excessero, consequentur……

Durior Diogenes Cynicus proici se jussit inhumatum.  Tum amici, “Volucribusne et feris?”  “minime vero,” inquit; “sed baecillum propter me, quo abigam, ponitote.”  “qui poteris?” illi; “non enim senties.”  “Quid igitur mihi ferarum laniatus oberit nihil sentienti?”

Vocabulary

Quid why                                                                     nomino 1^st name

Legio ionis f legion                                                        alacer cris cre eager happy eagerly

Frofectas (esse); redituras (esse)                                   Lacedaemonii orum M  Spartans

Hospes it is m Stranger                                     Sparta ae  Spartae dat depending on

                                                                                                                        Dic

Te vidisse nos                                                               iacentes

Obsequor + dat obey                                                   commemoro 1^st call to mind

(eum) interfectum (esse)                                                idcirco for that reason

gigno ere genui beget                                                    qui the kind of person who

occumbo ere cubui meet                                               admoneo remind

humatio onis f burial                                                      sepulture ae f funeral

dicendum (esse)                                                            existimo 1^st think

Crito onis m Crito                                                         sepelio ire ivi bury

Opera ae f effort                                                           frustra in vain

Mei gen of ego                                                 relicturum (esse)

Vestrum gen of vos                                                       consequor I  consecutus sum catch

Proicio throw out                                                          inhumatus a um unburied

Volucris is f bird                                                           fera ae f wild beast with proici

Understood

Minime no not at all                                                      bacillum I n staff

Propter near                                                                 abigo ere abegi drive away

Ponitote you shall put                                                    qui how

Laniatus us lacerating                                                    obsum esse be against hurt

Sentienti modifies mihi and has nihil as its object.