Usages of populus
Dum pluvia cadit, populus ante portam exspectat; deinde omnes per portam intrant.
While the rain is falling, the people wait in front of the gate; then everyone enters through the gate.
Multi homines pacem amant, sed populus interdum bellum non timet.
Many people love peace, but the people sometimes do not fear war.
Sic populus in urbe tutus est, quia hostes foris manent et nocte taciti non intrant.
Thus the people in the city are safe, because the enemies stay outside and do not enter silently at night.
Una puella in commentario suo scribit senatum decreta facere, oratores autem in contione populum movere conari.
One girl writes in her notebook that the senate makes decrees, but that orators in the assembly try to move the people.
Sed magistra monet cladem unius populi etiam iis qui vicerunt dolori esse posse.
But the teacher warns that the defeat of one people can be a sorrow even to those who have won.
Praeco populum monet ut taceat, quia candidati mox ante tribunal loquentur.
The herald warns the people to be silent, because the candidates will soon speak before the tribunal.
Cum senator de mandato populi loqueretur, quidam cives tacebant, alii autem clamabant.
When the senator was speaking about the people’s commission, some citizens were silent, but others were shouting.
Legatus mandatum populi senatui proponit.
The envoy presents the people’s commission to the senate.
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