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English:
In Aegyptō paucae
bēstiae reperiuntur. Itaque omnēs sacrae habentur. Fēlēs canēsque coluntur.
Mortuā fēle in quāvīs domō, omnēs aedium illārum incolae supercilia sōla
rādunt: mortuō cane, tōtum rādunt corpus et caput. Mortuae fēlēs in sacrīs
sepulcrīs, Būbastī in oppidō sepeliuntur. Canēs mortuōs in suō quisque oppidō
sepeliunt. Mūrēs etiam, arāneōs, accipitrēs, ibēs, ichneumonēs, colunt.
Vocabulary
accipiter,
acciptrī [2/m]: hawk
aedis, -is [3/f]:
[i] (singular) temple; [ii] here: plural; aedēs, -ium: house, dwelling
arāneus, -ī [2/m]:
spider
Būbastis, -is
[3/f; Loc: Būbastī or Būbaste]: Bubastis, an ancient city in Egypt, the centre
for the worship of the feline goddess Bastet and a principal location for
mummified cats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubastis
ībis, ībidis [3/f]:
ibis
ichneumōn, ichneumonis
[3/m]: ichneumon, an Egyptian mongoose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_mongoose
rādō, -ere, rāsī,
rāsus [3]: [i] shave, scrape; [ii] rub, smooth
reperiō, -īre,
repperī, repertus [4]: find, discover
Notes
[1] ablative
absolute constructions with the participle + noun
mortuā fēle
│with the cat having died = after / when the cat has died (is dead)
mortuō cane
│with the dog having died = after / when the dog has died (is dead)
[2] 2 words both
of which have a second indeclinable part:
[a]
in quāvīs
domō: in whichever house
[i] (here)
functioning as an adjective:
quī¦vīs,
quaevīs, quodvīs: whichever, whatever < [1] quī + [2] vīs (indeclinable:
“you want”);
[ii] It can also
stand alone as a pronoun
quīvīs, quaevīs,
quidvīs: whoever (you will), anyone, whatever (you will), anything,
whatsoever
[b] in suō quisque
oppidō │ each one in his own house
quis¦que,
quaeque, quodque: each (one) < [1] quis + [2] que (indeclineable)
[3] word order
(i) omnēs ¦ (ii) aedium
illārum ¦ (i) incolae │ (i) all the inhabitants ¦ (ii) of that house
(ii) Būbastī ¦ (i) in oppidō │(i) in the town ¦ (ii) apposition: (of) Bubastis
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Few / not many
animals are found in Egypt. Therefore, they are all held / regarded as sacred.
Dogs and cats are worshipped. When a cat has died in any house, all the
inhabitants of that house shave their eyebrows only: when a dog has died, they
shave the whole of the body and head. Dead cats are buried in sacred tombs in
the town of Bubastis. They bury dead dogs, each one in his own city. They also
/ even worship mice, spiders, hawks, ibises (and) mongooses.
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