Capita 21–25

Fābula dē Thrasyllō (Puer Rōmānus 21)

1. 1
   Thrasyllus valdē amābat Charitēn, eamque in mātrimōnium dūcere cupiēbat.

   Thrasyllus was deeply in love with Charite and wanted to marry her.

   ThrasyllusThrasyllus (a name)

   valdēgreatly/very/intensely

   amābatamo: love, like, be fond of

   Charitēn,dear, beloved

   eamqueis: he, she, it; that

   inin, on; into, to, against

   mātrimōniummatrimonium: marriage

   dūcereduco: lead, conduct

   cupiēbat.cupio: desire, wish
2. 2
   Hoc autem nūllō modō facere poterat, nam Charitē Tlēpolemō cuīdam iam nūpserat, marītumque suum māximē dīligēbat.

   But he could in no way do this, for Charite had already married one Tlepolemus, and loved her husband dearly.

3. 3
   Thrasyllus igitur Tlēpolemum, nūllō cōnsciō, interficere cōnstituit.

   So Thrasyllus decided to kill Tlepolemus, with no one knowing.

4. 4
   Hic quondam, comitante Thrasyllō, capreās vēnātum profectus—neque enim ferōciōrēs ferās, dente vel cornū armātās, Charitē marītum suum quaerere patiēbātur—ad silvam dēnsissimam cum canibus vēnāticīs pervēnit.

   One day Tlepolemus, with Thrasyllus for company, set out to hunt roe deer (for Charite would not let her husband go after fiercer beasts, armed with tusk or horn) and came with the hunting dogs to a very thick wood.

5. 5
   Repente ē mediā silvā immānis exsurgit aper, saetīs inhorrentibus squālidus, dentibusque frendentibus spūmeus, et fortiōrēs canum comminus aggrēssus, dentibus hāc illāc iactātīs lacerāvit interfēcitque; deinde calcātīs rētibus, quae prīmum retinuerant impetum, effūgit et sēsē in fugam dedit.

   Suddenly a huge boar rises out of the middle of the wood, shaggy with bristling hairs and foaming with gnashing tusks, and, attacking the stronger of the dogs at close quarters, tore and killed them, tossing them this way and that with his tusks; then, trampling down the nets which had at first held back his charge, he escaped and took to flight.

6. 6
   Quae cum ita gererentur, Thrasyllus fraudis occāsiōnem nactus, sīc Tlēpolemum compellat.

   While this was going on, Thrasyllus, having found his chance for treachery, addresses Tlepolemus thus.

7. 7
   ‘Quid hīc dubitāmus pavōre perculsī et tam opīmam praedam ē mediīs manibus āmīttimus? quīn equōs ascendimus? quīn ōcius īnstāmus? ēn cape vēnābulum et ego sūmam lanceam.’

   'Why do we hang back here, struck with fear, and let so rich a prize slip out of our very hands? Why not mount our horses? Why not press on quickly? Here, take the hunting spear, and I shall take the lance.'

8. 8
   Neque morātī prōtinus īnsiliunt equōs summō studiō aprum īnsequentēs.

   Without delay they leap on their horses at once and follow the boar with the greatest eagerness.

9. 9
   Prior Tlēpolemus iaculum, quod gerēbat, īnsuper dorsum ferae contorsit.

   Tlepolemus first hurled the javelin he was carrying down on the beast's back.

10. 10
    At Thrasyllus ferae quidem pepercit, sed equī, quō vehebātur Tlēpolemus, postrēmōs poplitēs lanceā amputat.

    But Thrasyllus spared the beast, and cut through the hind hamstrings of the horse Tlepolemus was riding with his lance.

Charitēn

dear, beloved

mātrimōnium

marriage

Charitē

dear, beloved

nūpserat

marry, be married to, from nubo

capreās

roe deer, from caprea

vēnātum

hunting, hunt, from venatus

armātās

equip, fit with armor, from armo

immānis

huge

exsurgit

bestir oneself, from exsurgo

saetīs

hair, from saeta

inhorrentibus

stand on end, from inhorreo

squālidus

squalid, filthy

frendentibus

gnash the teeth, grind up, from frendo

spūmeus

foamy, frothy

comminus

hand to hand

aggrēssus

approach, advance, from aggredior

iactātīs

throw away, throw out, from jacto

lacerāvit

mangle, from lacero

calcātīs

filling for ditches, fsacines, from calcata

rētibus

net, snare, from rete

retinuerant

hold back, restrain

fugam

flight, from fuga

occāsiōnem

favorable opportunity, favorable moment, from occasio

nactus

obtain, get, from nanciscor

compellat

address, speak to, from compello

pavōre

fear, panic, from pavor

praedam

booty, spoils, from praeda

ōcius

swifter, more speedy, from ocior

vēnābulum

hunting-spear

lanceam

lance, from lancea

īnsiliunt

come, from insilio

īnsuper

above, on top

dorsum

back, range

contorsit

stir up, make rough, from contorqueo

poplitēs

knee, from poples

1. 11
   Quadrupes dēlāpsus, quā sānguis efflūxerat, tōtō tergō supīnātus, invītus dominum suum ad terram dēvolvit; nec mora, sed eum ferōcissimus aper invādit iacentem, āc prīmō vestēs ēius, mox ipsum resurgentem multō dente laniāvit.

   The animal slipped down where the blood had flowed, rolled over on its whole back, and unwillingly threw its master to the ground; and without delay the savage boar attacks him as he lies there, and tore first his clothes and then, as he got up, the man himself with many a tusk.

2. 12
   Nec coeptī nefāriī bonum piguit amīcum, sed Tlēpolemō volnerāta crūra contegentī, auxiliumque miserē rogantī, per femur dexterum dīmīsit lanceam; ipsam quoque feram facilī manū transfōdit.

   Nor was the good friend sorry for his wicked undertaking, but as Tlepolemus was covering his wounded legs and piteously begging for help, he drove his lance through his right thigh; and he ran the beast itself through as well with an easy hand.

3. 13
   Ad hunc modum interfectō dominō, servī ēius, quisque ē suā latebrā, concurrērunt.

   When his master had been killed in this way, his slaves ran up, each from his own hiding place.

4. 14
   At ille, quamquam, vōtī compos, et prōstrātō inimīcō, laetus agēbat, voltū tamen gaudium tegēbat, dolōremque simulābat, et cadāver, quod ipse strāverat, avidē complexus omnia quidem lūgentium officia affīnxit.

   But Thrasyllus, although he was glad, having got his wish and laid his enemy low, all the same covered his joy with his face, and pretended grief, and greedily embraced the body which he himself had laid low, and put on all the duties of a mourner.

5. 15
   Sīc ad nostrī similitūdinem, quī vērē lāmentābāmur, maerōre fictō, manūs suae culpam aprō dabat.

   So, in feigned grief like ours, who were truly lamenting, he laid the guilt of his own hand on the boar.

6. 16
   Charitē autem simul atque audīvit marītum suum esse mortuum, summā celeritāte ad silvam contendit et tōtam sē super corpus effūdit; aegrē manibus suōrum ērepta domum rediit; saepenumerō Thrasyllus manūs ēius ā pectore pulsandō āmovēre, lūctum sēdāre, blandīs vōcibus dolōrem mulcēre frustrā cōnābātur.

   But Charite, as soon as she heard that her husband was dead, hurried to the wood at the greatest speed and threw herself right over the body; she was with difficulty pulled away by the hands of her household and went home; again and again Thrasyllus tried in vain to draw her hands away from beating her breast, to calm her mourning and to soothe her grief with coaxing words.

7. 17
   Sed officiīs fūneris statim exāctīs, id prōtinus puella agēbat ut mortem quam celerrimē obīret ipsa.

   But as soon as the funeral rites had been carried out, the young woman at once set about dying herself as quickly as she could.

8. 18
   Crēderēs eam inediā velle vītam fīnīre; nihil enim edēbat, īmīs in tenebrīs abscondita lūcem sōlis vītābat.

   You would have believed that she wanted to end her life by starving; for she ate nothing, and hidden in the deepest darkness she shunned the light of the sun.

9. 19
   Sed Thrasyllus tandem, adiuvantibus amīcīs, eī persuasit ut aliquantulum cibī ederet, neque corpus suum omnīnō neglegeret.

   But Thrasyllus at last, with the help of her friends, persuaded her to eat a little food and not to neglect her body altogether.

10. 20
    Nec sē retinēre potuit quīn flāgitāret eam, adhūc flentem marītum, adhūc vestēs lacerantem, capillōs adhūc distrahentem, ut priōris marītī oblīta sibi nūberet.

    Nor could he hold himself back from pressing her, while she still wept for her husband, still tore her clothes, still pulled at her hair, to forget her first husband and marry him.

Quadrupes

four-footed

supīnātus

lay on the back, from supino

invītus

reluctant

resurgentem

rise, from resurgo

laniāvit

tear, mangle, from lanio

coeptī

undertaking, enterprise, from coeptum

nefāriī

crime, from nefarium

piguit

be weakened, from pigeo

contegentī

cover up, conceal, from contego

auxiliumque

help, assistance

femur

thigh

transfōdit

transfix, pierce, from transfodio

latebrā

hiding place, retreat

concurrērunt

run together, from concurro

compos

in control of, master of

prōstrātō

knock over, lay low, from prosterno

dolōremque

pain, anguish, from dolor

cadāver

corpse, cadaver

avidē

greedily, hungrily

complexus

embrace, hug, from complector

officia

duty, from officium

affīnxit

add to, attach

similitūdinem

likeness, imitation, from similitudo

vērē

really, truly

lāmentābāmur

lament, from lamento

maerōre

grief, sorrow, from maeror

fictō

fig, from fictum

culpam

fault, from culpa

ērepta

snatch from, from eripio

āmovēre

move, remove, from amoveo

lūctum

grief, sorrow, from luctus

sēdāre

sit, remain, from sedo

mulcēre

beat up, thrash, from mulceo

frustrā

in vain

cōnābātur

attempt, try, from conor

inediā

fasting, starvation

tenebrīs

darkness, obscurity, from tenebra

abscondita

hide, conceal, from abscondo

adiuvantibus

help, aid, from adjuvo

distrahentem

draw, wrench, from distraho

1. 21
   Sed Charitē ā nefandō prōpositō abhorruit, cōnābāturque efficere ut flāgitantem dēciperet.

   But Charite shrank from the wicked proposal, and tried to deceive the man who pressed her.

2. 22
   Tālia recordantī somniīs umbra miserē trucidātī Tlēpolemī, saniē cruenta et pallōre dēfōrmis, surgere vidēbātur atque hunc in modum loquī.

   As she turned such things over, the ghost of the piteously slaughtered Tlepolemus seemed in her dreams to rise up, bloody with gore and hideous with pallor, and to speak in this way.

3. 23
   ‘Mea cōniux, vēnī ut necem meam in Thrasyllō vindicēs, nam scelestus ille lanceā suā mē ad Orcum mīsit.’

   'My wife, I have come so that you may avenge my murder on Thrasyllus, for that wicked man sent me to Orcus with his lance.'

4. 24
   Deinde omnibus rēbus patefactīs umbra ēvānuit.

   Then, when everything had been made plain, the ghost vanished.

5. 25
   Charitē tamen nēquissimum percussōrem pūnīre et miseriīs vītae sēsē subtrahere cōnstituit.

   Charite, however, decided to punish the utter villain who had struck him down, and to take herself out of the miseries of life.

6. 26
   Thrasyllum igitur prīmā vigiliā tacitum iūssit ad forēs suās accēdere nūllōque cōnsciō domum intrāre.

   So she ordered Thrasyllus to come silently to her door at the first watch and to enter the house with no one knowing.

7. 27
   Placuit Thrasyllō hoc cōnsilium; nec fraudis aliquid suspicātus, sed spē sublātus, cubiculum irrēpsit, Charitēque eī vīnum sopōriferō venēnō immīxtum dedit, quō pōtū sōpītum eum aggrēssa est, acūque ē crīnibus dēpromptā oculōs ēius volnerāvit prōrsusque caecum illum relīquit.

   This plan pleased Thrasyllus; and suspecting no trick, but lifted up with hope, he crept into the bedroom, and Charite gave him wine mixed with a sleeping drug, and when he had been put to sleep by the drink she set upon him, and drawing a pin from her hair she wounded his eyes and left him altogether blind.

8. 28
   Tunc nūdō gladiō arreptō per mediam urbem sē prōripuit āc prope marītī sepulcrum mortem sibi cōnscīvit.

   Then, snatching up a naked sword, she rushed out through the middle of the city and took her own life near her husband's tomb.

9. 29
   Thrasyllus vērō, omnibus rēbus cōgnitīs, nūllō aliō modō sē tantum scelus expiāre posse ratus, nec tantō facinorī gladium sufficere, sponte suā ad sepulcrum sē recēpit et ‘Ēn ultrō vōbīs, īnfestī Mānēs, adest victima’, saepe clāmitāns, valvīs super sēsē dīligenter obserātīs, inediā statuit fīnīre vītam suā sententiā damnātam.

   But Thrasyllus, when he had learnt everything, thinking that he could atone for so great a crime in no other way, and that a sword was not enough for so great a deed, took himself of his own accord to the tomb, and crying out again and again, 'See, hostile ghosts, here is your victim, of his own free will,' he barred the doors carefully over himself and resolved to end by starving the life he had himself condemned.

10. 30
    Aprum cōnsecūtus quid fēcit Thrasyllus?

    When he had come up with the boar, what did Thrasyllus do?

nefandō

impious, wicked, from nefandus

abhorruit

dread, become terrified, from abhorresco

recordantī

think over, from recordor

trucidātī

slaughter, butcher, from trucido

saniē

ichorous, from sanies

cruenta

bloody, from cruentus

pallōre

wanness, from pallor

dēfōrmis

deformed

cōniux

spouse, from conjunx

vindicēs

defender, protector, from vindex

scelestus

infamous, wicked

ēvānuit

vanish, from evanesco

percussōrem

murderer, assassin, from percussor

miseriīs

misery, distress, from miseria

subtrahere

carry off, from subtraho

tacitum

Tacitus

irrēpsit

creep in or into, from irrepo

Charitēque

dear, beloved

sopōriferō

bringing sleep or unconsciousness, from soporifer

venēnō

imbue or infect with poison

immīxtum

mix in, mingle, from immisceo

pōtū

drink, from potus

acūque

needle, from acus

crīnibus

hair, from crinis

volnerāvit

wound, pain

prōrsusque

forwards, right onward, from prorsus

caecum

blind person

arreptō

take hold of, from arripio

prōripuit

drag or snatch away, from proripio

cōnscīvit

ordain, from conscisco

scelus

crime

expiāre

make amends for, atone for, from expio

facinorī

deed, from facinus

sufficere

be sufficient, suffice, from sufficio

sponte

free will

ultrō

besides, beyond

valvīs

double or folding door, one, from valva

obserātīs

bolt, fasten, from obsero

statuit

fix, decide, from statuo

damnātam

pass, find guilty, from damno

cōnsecūtus

follow, go, from consequor

1. 31
   Quid equō accidit?

   What happened to the horse?

2. 32
   Deinde aper quid fēcit?

   What did the boar do next?

3. 33
   Quid ōrāvit Tlēpolemus?

   What did Tlepolemus beg?

4. 34
   Sed Thrasyllus quid fēcit?

   But what did Thrasyllus do?

5. 35
   Tlēpolemō interfectō quid fēcērunt servī ēius?

   When Tlepolemus had been killed, what did his slaves do?

6. 36
   Intereā quid simulābat Thrasyllus?

   Meanwhile what was Thrasyllus pretending?

7. 37
   Quid fēcit Charitē cum audīvisset Tlēpolemum esse mortuum?

   What did Charite do when she had heard that Tlepolemus was dead?

8. 38
   Quōmodo servī eam domum reportāvērunt?

   How did the slaves carry her home?

9. 39
   Posteā quid frustrā cōnābātur Thrasyllus facere?

   What did Thrasyllus afterwards try in vain to do?

10. 40
    Fūnere dūctō quid ēgit Charitē?

    When the funeral had been held, what did Charite do?

reportāvērunt

bring back, restore, from reporto

dūctō

lead

1. 41
   Quid dē eā crēderēs?

   What would you have believed about her?

2. 42
   Cūr hoc crēderēs?

   Why would you have believed this?

3. 43
   Quid tandem eī persuāsit Thrasyllus?

   What did Thrasyllus at last persuade her to do?

4. 44
   Sed quid deinde eam flāgitābat?

   But what did he then press her to do?

5. 45
   Cum ab hōc prōpositō abhorrēret Charitē quid facere cōnābātur?

   When Charite shrank from this proposal, what did she try to do?

6. 46
   Quid eī accidit tālia recordantī?

   What happened to her as she turned such things over?

7. 47
   Quid dīxit umbra?

   What did the ghost say?

8. 48
   Hīs dictīs quid cōnstituit Charitē facere?

   When this had been said, what did Charite decide to do?

9. 49
   Quid igitur Thrasyllum iūssit facere?

   What then did she order Thrasyllus to do?

10. 50
    Quid dedit eī cubiculum ingrēssō?

    What did she give him when he had come into the bedroom?

1. 51
   Deinde quid fēcit Charitē?

   What did Charite do next?

2. 52
   Nūdō arreptō gladiō quō sē prōripuit?

   When she had snatched up a naked sword, where did she rush out to?

3. 53
   Quid apud sepulcrum fēcit?

   What did she do at the tomb?

4. 54
   Hīs rēbus cōgnitīs quid putābat Thrasyllus?

   When he had learnt all this, what did Thrasyllus think?

5. 55
   Quid igitur fēcit?

   What then did he do?

6. 56
   Quid clāmābat?

   What was he crying out?

7. 57
   Quōmodo mortem sibi cōnscīvit?

   How did he take his own life?

8. 58
   Hāc nārrātā fābulā quid dīxit alius convīva?

   When this story had been told, what did another guest say?

9. 59
   Quid omnēs reliquī flāgitābant?

   What did all the rest press for?

10. 60
    Quam pater tuus in mātrimōnium dūxit?

    Whom did your father marry?

reliquī

remaining, rest of, from reliquus

1. 61
   Cūr nūpsit māter?

   Why did your mother marry?

2. 62
   Quālēs sunt canēs vēnāticī?

   What are hunting dogs like?

3. 63
   Quid facimus in latebrīs?

   What do we do in hiding places?

Simōnidēs poēta (Puer Rōmānus 22)

1. 64
   Quibus iam nārrātis alius quīdam dīxit fābulam dē Gabiēnō sibi in memoriam revocāvisse et aliam dē poētā Simōnide fābulam, omnibusque flāgitantibus ut nārrāret sīc incēpit: ‘Ōlim Simōnidēs, cum ad lītus nāvem appulisset, inhumātumque corpus ibi inventum sepultūrā affēcisset, admonitus ab umbrā nē proximō diē nāvigāret, nam sī nāvigāsset naufragiō esse peritūrum, in terrā remānsit.

   When these stories had been told, another man said that the story of Gabienus had brought back to his mind another story too, about the poet Simonides, and when they all pressed him to tell it he began thus: 'Once Simonides, when he had brought his ship to shore and had given burial to a body he found unburied there, was warned by the ghost not to sail the next day, for if he sailed he would die in a shipwreck; and so he stayed on land.

2. 65
   Quī inde solverant, flūctibus et procellīs in cōnspectū ēius obrutī sunt.

   Those who had set sail from there were overwhelmed by the waves and the storm in his sight.

3. 66
   Ipse gāvīsus est, quod vītam suam somniō quam nāvī crēdere māluisset.

   He was glad that he had chosen to trust his life to a dream rather than to a ship.

4. 67
   Memor autem beneficiī ēlegantissimō carmine virum celebrāvit, quō melius illī et diūturnius in animīs hominum sepulcrum cōnstituit quam quod in dēsertīs arēnīs strūxerat.’

   And remembering the good turn done him, he honoured the man in a most graceful poem, and so set up for him a better and a longer lasting tomb in men's minds than the one he had built on the lonely sands.'

5. 68
   Mihi quidem brevior haec fābula multō magis placuit quam illa dē Thrasyllō longior, neque mē retinēre poteram quīn ita dīcerem.

   To me at any rate this shorter story was much more pleasing than that longer one about Thrasyllus, and I could not hold myself back from saying so.

6. 69
   Quibus dictīs, longiōris fābulae auctor dīxit oportēre puerulōs tacēre neque stultōs sē praestāre, cuī is quī de Simōnide nārrāverat ‘Interdum’ respondit, ‘etiam stultus bene loquitur’.

   When I had said this, the teller of the longer story said that little boys ought to keep quiet and not show themselves fools, and the man who had told the story of Simonides answered him, 'Sometimes even a fool speaks well.'

7. 70
   Quid fēcit Simōnidēs in lītore?

   What did Simonides do on the shore?

8. 71
   Quid eum monuit umbra?

   What did the ghost warn him?

9. 72
   Cūr hoc eum monuit?

   Why did it warn him of this?

10. 73
    Itaque quid fēcit Simōnidēs?

    So what did Simonides do?

revocāvisse

call back, recall

Simōnide

simony, from Simonides

inhumātumque

unburied

sepultūrā

burial

admonitus

warning

nāvigāret

sail, from navigo

naufragiō

shipwreck, from naufragium

remānsit

flow back, from remaneo

flūctibus

wave, billow, from fluctus

procellīs

storm, gale, from procella

obrutī

cover up, hide, from obruo

beneficiī

kindness, favor, from beneficium

ēlegantissimō

elegant, fine, from elegans

melius

better

diūturnius

lasting, lasting long, from diuturnus

puerulōs

little boy, from puerulus

monuit

remind, advise, from moneo

1. 74
   Quid accidit eīs quī iam solverant?

   What happened to those who had already set sail?

2. 75
   Cūr gāvīsus est Simōnides?

   Why was Simonides glad?

3. 76
   Quōmodo grātiās ēgit prō tam praeclārō beneficiō?

   How did he give thanks for so splendid a good turn?

4. 77
   Quid ego dē hāc fābulā dīxī?

   What did I say about this story?

5. 78
   Quid respondit fābulae dē Thrasyllō auctor?

   What did the teller of the story about Thrasyllus answer?

6. 79
   Cuī quid dīxit is quī dē Simōnide nārrāverat?

   And what did the man who had told the story of Simonides say to him?

Comitēs Ulixis (Puer Rōmānus 23)

1. 80
   Hī igitur iūrgiō alius alium lacessere coepērunt neque multum aberat quīn ē iūrgiō rīxa orerētur.

   So these two began to provoke each other with quarrelling, and it was not far from a brawl arising out of the quarrel.

2. 81
   Itaque pater statim ‘Ulixem’ inquit, ‘trāditum est errantem, ēversō iam Iliō, tempestātibus hūc illūc et ad aliās Ītaliae āc Siciliae urbēs et Temessam etiam appulsum; ibi dē nāvālibus sociīs ēius ūnum, virgine per vīnum violātā, ab oppidānīs contumēliam vindicantibus lapidibus obrutum.

   So my father said at once, 'It is handed down that Ulysses, as he wandered after Troy had been overthrown, was driven by storms this way and that, to other cities of Italy and Sicily and to Temesa as well; and that there one of his shipmates, having wronged a girl in his drink, was stoned to death by the townsmen avenging the outrage.

3. 82
   Ulixem quidem nūllā ratiōne mortem ulcīscendī initā inde profectum; peremptī vērō sociī mānēs nūllum saeviendī fīnem in cūiuslibet aetātis hominēs fēcisse, dōnec patriam relictūrī Temessēnsēs, ut eam pestem effugerent, Pȳthicī Apollinis respōnsō hērōem plācāre iūssī sunt et cōnsecrātō eī solō templum aedificāre; dēvovēre eī praetereā quotannīs virginem illam, quae ipsīs fōrmōsissima vīsa esset.

   Ulysses, it is said, took no measures to avenge his death and sailed away from there; but the ghost of the murdered shipmate made no end of raging against men of every age, until the people of Temesa, who were about to leave their country in order to escape that plague, were ordered by an answer of Pythian Apollo to appease the hero, to set aside ground for him and build a temple, and besides to dedicate to him every year that girl who seemed to them the most beautiful.

4. 83
   Quod cum illī ex ōrāculō facere pergerent, nihil omnīnō gravius dehinc passī sunt.

   And when they went on doing this according to the oracle, they suffered nothing worse at all from then on.

5. 84
   Forte vērō cum vēnisset Euthȳmus Temessam, eō ipsō tempore quō sollemne nūminī sacrum fīēbat, rē tōtā cōgnitā, āiunt illum postulāsse ut in templum intrōmītterētur; ibi virginem cōnspicātum, prīmō misericordiā commōtum, deinde etiam amōre incēnsum; āc puellam quidem, sī ab eō servāta esset, sē in ēius manum conventūram, fidem dedisse.

   But it happened that when Euthymus had come to Temesa, at the very time when the yearly sacrifice to the spirit was being made, he learned the whole story, and they say he asked to be let into the temple; that there he caught sight of the girl, and was moved at first by pity and then set on fire by love; and that the girl gave her word that, if she were saved by him, she would come into his hand in marriage.

6. 85
   Armīs igitur captīs cum geniō congrēssum; illum victum moenibus et agrō excessisse, ē cōnspectū prōrsus hominum in mare dēmersum ēvānuisse.

   So he took his arms and fought the spirit; and it was beaten and left the walls and the land, and sank into the sea and vanished clean out of men's sight.

7. 86
   Fuisse memorant, cīvitāte ūniversā ē foedissimā calamitāte līberātā, māximē illūstrēs Euthȳmī nūptiās’.

   They relate that, now that the whole state had been freed from a most hideous disaster, the wedding of Euthymus was a very splendid one.'

8. 87
   Quibus nārrātīs ‘Mīrum’ inquit, ‘quam mīrābilēs apud māiōrēs nostrōs rēs acciderint; nūsquam tālia hodiē audīmus’.

   When this had been told, he said, 'It is a wonder what marvellous things happened in the days of our forefathers; nowhere do we hear such things today.'

9. 88
   ‘Sed accidunt’ respondit alius, ‘et apud nōs.’

   'But they do happen,' answered another, 'among us too.'

10. 89
    Ēversō iam Īliō ubi appulsus est Ulixēs?

    After Troy had been overthrown, where was Ulysses driven?

iūrgiō

quarrel, from jurgium

lacessere

provoke, excite, from lacesso

Ulixem

Ulysses, from Ulixes

ēversō

sweep, from everro

tempestātibus

season, time, from tempestas

appulsum

landing, from appulsus

nāvālibus

naval, from navalis

virgine

maiden, young woman, from virgo

violātā

violate, dishonor, from violo

oppidānīs

townsman, from oppidanus

contumēliam

indignity, affront, from contumelia

vindicantibus

claim, vindicate, from vindico

ulcīscendī

avenge, from ulciscor

initā

enter, from inito

peremptī

kill, destroy, from peremo

aetātis

age, from aetas

dōnec

while, as long as

pestem

plague, pestilence, from pestis

hērōem

hero, from Hero

plācāre

appease, from placo

cōnsecrātō

consecrated, holy, from consecratus

dēvovēre

devote, consecrate, from devoveo

ōrāculō

oracle, from oraculum

dehinc

hereafter, henceforth

sollemne

solemn, ceremonial, from sollemnis

postulāsse

demand, from postulo

intrōmītterētur

admit, let into

cōnspicātum

catch sight of, see, from conspicor

misericordiā

pity, sympathy

commōtum

shake, agitate, from commoveo

incēnsum

incense

captīs

catch, from captus

congrēssum

meet, approach, from congredior

excessisse

pass, withdraw, from excedo

dēmersum

depressed, from demersus

memorant

remember, from memoro

ūniversā

whole, entire, from universus

foedissimā

foul, from foedus

calamitāte

loss, disaster, from calamitas

nūptiās

marriage, nuptials, from nuptiae

nārrātīs

narrative, story, from narratum

Mīrum

wonderful, marvelous, from mirus

māiōrēs

ancestors, from majores

nūsquam

nowhere

1. 90
   Quid Temessae accidit ūnī ex comitibus Ulixis?

   What happened at Temesa to one of the companions of Ulysses?

2. 91
   Num Ulixēs cōnsilium iniit ut mortem ēius ulcīscerētur?

   Surely Ulysses did not make a plan to avenge his death?

3. 92
   Quid posteā Temessēnsibus accidit?

   What happened to the people of Temesa afterwards?

4. 93
   Cūr Delphōs mīsērunt nūntium?

   Why did they send a messenger to Delphi?

5. 94
   Quid respondit Apollō?

   What did Apollo answer?

6. 95
   Quando Temessam vēnit Euthȳmus?

   When did Euthymus come to Temesa?

7. 96
   Quid ōrāvit Euthȳmus cum dē virgine sacrificandā audiisset?

   What did Euthymus ask when he had heard about the girl who was to be sacrificed?

8. 97
   Quid in templō accidit?

   What happened in the temple?

9. 98
   Cūr adeō illūstrēs erant Euthȳmī nūptiae?

   Why was the wedding of Euthymus so splendid?

Delphōs

goddess, from Delphi

sacrificandā

sacrificing priest

Caesar Rubicōnem trānsit (Puer Rōmānus 24)

1. 99
   Quid enim Caesarī ōlim accidit dubitantī utrum Rubicōnem flūmen trānsīret necne?

   For what happened once to Caesar when he was in doubt whether to cross the river Rubicon or not?

2. 100
   Nam post sōlis occāsum, mūlīs ē proximō pistrīnō ad vehiculum iūnctīs, occultissimum iter modicō comitātū ingrēssus est; et cum, lūminibus exstīnctīs, dēcessisset viā, diū errābundus, tandem sub lūcem duce repertō, per angustissimōs trāmitēs pedibus ēvāsit; cōnsecūtusque cohortēs ad Rubicōnem flūmen, quod prōvinciae ēius fīnis erat, paulum cōnstitit, āc reputāns quantum mōlīrētur, conversus ad proximōs ‘Etiam nunc’, inquit ‘regredī possumus; quod sī ponticulum trānsierimus, omnia armīs agenda erunt’.

   For after sunset, with mules harnessed to a carriage from the nearest mill, he set out on a most secret journey with a small escort; and when, the lights having gone out, he had left the road and wandered for a long time, at last towards dawn he found a guide and got through on foot along the narrowest paths; and coming up with his cohorts at the river Rubicon, which was the boundary of his province, he halted a little, and reflecting how great a thing he was setting in motion, he turned to those nearest him and said, 'Even now we can go back; but if we cross this little bridge, everything will have to be settled by arms.'

3. 101
   Cūnctantī ostentum fit hūiusmodi.

   As he hesitates, a portent of this kind occurs.

4. 102
   Quīdam eximiā magnitūdine et fōrmā proximē sedēns repente appāruit, harundine canēns; ad quem audiendum cum praeter pastōrēs plūrimī etiam ex statiōnibus mīlitēs concurrissent, raptā ab ūnō tubā, ad flumen prōsiluit et ingentī spīritū classicum exōrsus ad alteram rīpam pertendit.

   A man of outstanding size and beauty suddenly appeared sitting close by, playing on a reed; and when, besides the shepherds, very many soldiers too had run together from their posts to hear him, he snatched a trumpet from one of them, leapt down to the river, and, striking up the call to arms with a mighty breath, made for the other bank.

5. 103
   Tunc Caesar ‘Eātur’ inquit ‘quō deōrum ostenta vocant; iacta ālea est’.

   Then Caesar said, 'Let us go where the portents of the gods call us; the die is cast.'

6. 104
   Quid dubitāvit Caesar?

   What was Caesar in doubt about?

7. 105
   Quid post sōlis occāsum fēcit?

   What did he do after sunset?

8. 106
   Lūminibus vehiculī exstīnctīs quid eī accidit?

   When the lights of the carriage had gone out, what happened to him?

9. 107
   Quōmodo sub lūcem pedibus ēvāsit?

   How did he get through on foot towards dawn?

10. 108
    Deinde quō contendit?

    Where did he then hurry?

Rubicōnem

red dye, from Rubico

occāsum

setting, from occasus

pistrīnō

mill, from pistrinum

occultissimum

swift, at speed, from occulo

modicō

modest, ordinary, from modicus

dēcessisset

withdraw, go off, from decedo

errābundus

wandering

trāmitēs

footpath, track, from trames

ēvāsit

evade, escape, from evado

cohortēs

cohort, from cohors

mōlīrētur

struggle, labor, from molio

conversus

sweep, from converro

ponticulum

little bridge, from ponticulus

ostentum

prodigy, marvel

eximiā

select, from eximius

magnitūdine

size, magnitude, from magnitudo

fōrmā

form, beauty

proximē

nearest, next

harundine

reed, cane, from harundo

statiōnibus

outpost, picket, from statio

raptā

plunder

spīritū

breath, breathing, from spiritus

classicum

trumpeter

pertendit

persevere, persist, from pertendo

ālea

game of dice

1. 109
   Cum reputāret quantum mōlīrētur quid adstantibus dīxit?

   When he reflected how great a thing he was setting in motion, what did he say to those standing by?

2. 110
   Quid repente appāruit?

   What suddenly appeared?

3. 111
   Cūr cōncurrērunt omnēs?

   Why did they all run together?

4. 112
   Quid deinde imāgō fēcit?

   What did the apparition then do?

5. 113
   Quid dīxit Caesar?

   What did Caesar say?

adstantibus

stand at, from asto

Cubitum eō (Puer Rōmānus 25)

1. 114
   Equidem vērō quamquam vehementer cupiēbam fābulās audīre in summō eram terrōre nē quis mē dē Dāvī somniō percontārētur.

   For my part, although I very much wanted to hear the stories, I was in the greatest terror that someone might question me about Davus' dream.

2. 115
   Īmmō vērō dum pater nārrat mihi cōnscius eram animī perturbātiōnis neque procul aberam quīn rubēscendō omnēs certiōrēs facerem mē perturbārī.

   Indeed, while my father was telling it, I was conscious of my own uneasiness, and was not far from letting everyone know by blushing that I was uneasy.

3. 116
   Nam Valerium, avunculum meum, foedā speciē senem et mihi invīsum, cūriōsē mē spectāre vidēbam.

   For I saw that Valerius, my mother's brother, an old man of ugly looks whom I disliked, was watching me curiously.

4. 117
   Id igitur ēgī ut quam celerrimē ē cōnspectū ēius effugerem, quārē hiāre incipiēbam et omnibus modīs simulāre mē fessum esse.

   So I set about getting out of his sight as quickly as I could, and began to yawn and to pretend in every way that I was tired.

5. 118
   Quibus animadversīs pater ‘Iamdūdum’ inquit ‘puerulōs dormīre oportet; age nunc, mī Lūcī, iubē omnēs valēre et ad cubiculum abī’.

   Noticing this my father said, 'Little boys ought to have been asleep long ago; come now, my dear Lucius, bid everyone good night and go off to your bedroom.'

6. 119
   Simul atque haec audīvī summō cum gaudiō, salūtātīs convīvīs, discessī, nam, quamquam plērumque cubitum īre nōlō, sed adultōrum rītū pervigilāre mālō,—neque intellegere possum quam ob rem parentēs aliīque adultī tam mōrōsōs sē praestent ut iūniōrēs semper cubitum dīmīttant priusquam ipsī dormīre velint,—tunc autem minimē aegrē ferēbam mē dīmīttī.

   As soon as I heard this I greeted the guests and went off with the greatest joy; for although as a rule I do not want to go to bed, but would rather stay up in the manner of grown-ups (and I cannot understand why parents and other grown-ups show themselves so peevish as always to send the younger ones off to bed before they want to sleep themselves), yet at that moment I did not in the least mind being sent away.

7. 120
   Quis enim serēnus esse potest cuī semper aliquis adsit terror?

   For who can be untroubled if some fear is always with him?

8. 121
   Beātum illum, cuī mēns rēctī sibi cōnscia; sed nēmo, cuī animī serēnitās abest, beātus dīcī potest quamvīs sit dīves.

   Happy is the man whose mind knows itself to be upright; but no one from whom peace of mind is absent can be called happy, however rich he may be.

9. 122
   Ut Horātius dīcit:—

   As Horace says:

10. 123
    Dēstrīctus ēnsis cuī super impiā

    The man over whose guilty neck a drawn

vehementer

eagerly, vehemently

percontārētur

inquire, from perconto

perturbātiōnis

disturbance, from perturbatio

rubēscendō

turn red, redden

perturbārī

confuse, throw into confusion, from perturbo

Valerium

of Valerius, Roman gens, from Valerius

avunculum

maternal uncle, mother's brother, from avunculus

cūriōsē

why, wherefore, from curiosus

effugerem

drive away

quārē

in what way? how? by

Iamdūdum

long ago, from jamdudum

aliīque

some ... others

mōrōsōs

hard to please, persnickety, from morosus

serēnus

clear, fair

serēnitās

fine weather

quamvīs

however much

Dēstrīctus

strict, severe

ēnsis

sword

impiā

wicked, impious, from impius

1. 124
   cervīce pendet, nōn Siculae dapēs

   sword hangs will find no sweet savour

2. 125
   dulcem ēlabōrābunt sapōrem,

   drawn out for him by Sicilian feasts,

3. 126
   nōn avium citharaeque cantūs

   nor will the song of birds and lyre

4. 127
   somnum redūcent.

   bring back his sleep.

5. 128
   Quid timēbam dum fābulae nārrantur?

   What was I afraid of while the stories were being told?

6. 129
   Dum pater nārrat cūius reī mihi cōnscius eram?

   While my father was telling his story, what was I conscious of?

7. 130
   Quis erat Valerius?

   Who was Valerius?

8. 131
   Quid vīdī eum facere?

   What did I see him doing?

9. 132
   Cūr hiāre incēpī?

   Why did I begin to yawn?

10. 133
    Quid mihi dīxit pater?

    What did my father say to me?

dapēs

sacrificial feast, from daps

ēlabōrābunt

take pains, exert oneself, from elaboro

sapōrem

taste, flavor, from sapor

citharaeque

cithara, lyre, from cithara

cantūs

tire, iron ring around a

redūcent

lead back, bring back, from reduco

1. 134
   Cūr plērumque cubitum īre nōlō?

   Why do I usually not want to go to bed?

2. 135
   Cūr illō tempore nōn aegrē ferēbam mē dīmīttī?

   Why did I not mind being sent away at that time?

3. 136
   Quālis numquam potest serēnus esse?

   What sort of man can never be untroubled?

4. 137
   Quid dīcit Horātius dē tālibus?

   What does Horace say about such men?