SOMNIUM SCIPIONIS
- Cicero De Re Publica (54-51 B.C.)


14) Hic ego, etsi eram (impf ind) perterritus non tam mortis metu quam insidiarum a meis,
At this point although I was frightened less by the fear of death than by fear of the attacks of my friends

quaesivi (pf ind) tamen, viveretne (impf sbj) ipse et Pallus pater et alii, quos nos extinctos arbitraremur (impf sbj) .
I asked him whether he himself and my father Paulus and the others whom we consider dead were really still alive.

Immo vero inquit (pres/pf ind defect) , hi vivunt (pres ind) , qui e corporum vinculis tamquam e carcere evolaverunt (pf ind) ,
"Indeed," he replied, "these men live and have flown away from the chains of the body as if from prison

vestra vero, quae dicitur (pres ind) vita mors est (pres ind) .
since what you call life is the real death.

quin tu aspicis (pres ind) ad te venientem (part pres) Pallum patrem?
Do you not see your father Paulus approaching?"

Quem ut vidi (pf ind) , equidem vim lacrimarum profundi (pf ind) ,
When I saw him I wept profusely

ille autem me complexus (part pf dep) atque osculans (part pres dep) flere (inf pres) prohibebat (impf ind) .
but he embraced and kissed me and ordered me to cease weeping.