Magister et discipulī

Discipulī ē lectulīs surgunt et ad lūdum eunt.

The pupils get up out of their little beds and go to school.

In lūdō magister discipulōs spectat.

In the school the master watches the pupils

Sella magistrī vacua est.

The master's chair is empty.

Titus iānuam aperit.

Titus opens the door.

Discipulī ē lectulīs surgunt iānuam aperiunt et sellam magistrī spectant.

The pupils get up from their couches, open the door and look at the master's chair.

Vōs recitātis, sed cēterī tacitī sunt.

You are reciting, but the others are silent.

Magister īrātus discipulum pūnit, sed Titus nōn plōrat.

The angry master punishes a pupil but Titus does not cry

In sellīs cōnsīdimus.

We sit down on the chairs.

Tū recitāre potes sed ego taceō.

You can recite, but I keep quiet.

Discipulus exclāmāre dēsinit.

The pupil stops shouting.

Lūdum intrāmus in sellīs cōnsīdimus et librum longum recitāmus.

We enter the school, sit down on the chairs and recite a long book.

Vōbīs nōndum exīre licet, nam lūdus nōndum dēsinit.

You are not yet allowed to go out, for school is not over yet.

Magister sevērus est, sed puer vērum dīcit et nūllum malum accipit.

The master is stern but the boy tells the truth and suffers no harm

Nōbīs cantāre licet.

We are allowed to sing.

Vērum dīcis.

You are telling the truth.

Nōbīs nōndum ē lūdō exīre licet sed cōnsīdere et librum recitāre possumus.

We are not yet allowed to leave the school, but we can sit down and recite the book.

Antequam magister recitat, puerī sellās īnferiōrēs petunt et cōnsīdunt.

Before the master recites, the children make for the lower chairs and sit down.

Titus recitat, at Līvia tacita est.

Titus recites but Livia is silent

Sī cōnsīditis magister recitat.

If you sit down, the master recites.

Domī edimus.

We eat at home.

Antequam ad vīllam redīmus librōs magistrō reddimus at vōs in sellīs posteriōribus sedētis.

Before we return to the villa, we give the books back to the master, but you remain seated on the chairs at the back.