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 well,, I dont have a creative latin page name. so sorry.  anyway.  my latin passage:  Caesar's __de Bello Gallico__   Book 7, chapter 60 goes like this: 60. Sub vesperum consilio convocato cohortatus ut ea quae imperasset diligenter __//industrie//__que administrarent, naves, quas Metiosedo deduxerat, singulas equitibus Romanis attribuit, et prima confecta vigilia quattuor milia passuum secundo flumine silentio progredi ibique se exspectari iubet. Quinque cohortes, quas minime firmas ad dimicandum esse existimabat, castris praesidio relinquit; quinque eiusdem legionis reliquas de media nocte cum omnibus impedimentis adverso flumine magno tumultu proficisci imperat.

the bolded, underlined, italized word was //__industrie__// important because its a Roman virtue. that I researched. (see my discussion on the Latin III page. . .)

the translation is still a work in progress.

here it is! Under the evening star, a council having been called together, he urged them to manage with diligence and industry those things which he had commanded, ships, which he had led to Metiosedo, he assigned them one at a time to each Roman horseman, and with first watch having been completed he ordered them to advance four miles in silence on the favorable river and he ordered them to wait there. He left behind as a guard for the camps five cohorts which were not strong enough for fighing; he commands the remaining five of this same legion to depart in the middle of the night with all of their armaments on an unfavorable river during a great rebellion.

Just a little bit about the passage. . . its from __de Bello Gallico__ <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; text-align: center;">meaning "on the Gallic War" <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; text-align: center;">written by Julius Caesar <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; text-align: center;">the Gallics Wars were fought from 58-51 BCE <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; text-align: center;">it was basically just written for propaganda <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; text-align: center;">so that the Roman people would like him again. ..

<span style="background-color: #800080; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; text-align: center;">So some more about industria. . . <span style="background-color: #800080; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; text-align: center;">How does it apply today? <span style="background-color: #800080; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; text-align: center;">why is it important today? <span style="background-color: #800080; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; text-align: center;">really, industria is a virtue thats always going to be necessary. <span style="background-color: #800080; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; text-align: center;">people will hopefully always find it important to work hard and apply themselves <span style="background-color: #800080; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; text-align: center;">especially at this school. . .you have to be willing to work hard!