Tum
nōs “Chrīstiānī igitur fuerant in Britanniā iam ante adventum Sānctī
Augustīnī?” inquimus. Et ille “fuerant” inquit; “nam basilicae ā Chrīstiānīs
Britannicīs iam temporibus Rōmānīs aedificātae erant, quārum reliquiās vōs
Dubrīs vīdistis et ego Callēvae vīdī. Post prīncipātum Nerōnis multī Chrīstiānī
in imperiō Rōmānō fuērunt; nam annō prīmō et sexāgēsimō post Chrīstum
nātum Sānctus Paulus Rōmam captīvus dēportātus est. Et uxor illīus Aulī
Plautiī, quī iam aetāte prīncipis Claudiī Britanniae praefuit, Chrīstiāna
fuisse exīstimātur. Nam ‘superstitiōnis peregrīnae’ accūsāta est. Nōmen eī fuit
Pompōniae Graecīnae. Sed Anglī et Saxonēs, quī multōs deōs adōrābant, basilicās
Chrīstiānās plērumque dēlēvērunt. Basilica autem Sānctī Martīnī, quae Durovernī
erat, nōn omnīnō dēlēta erat. Durovernum igitur intrāvērunt nūntiī illī verbī
dīvīnī, crucem argenteam et simulācrum Chrīstī in manibus tenentēs, et carmen
sacrum cantantēs: ‘Īram tuam ab hāc urbe et ā domō tuā sānctā removē, ō Deus;
quia peccāvimus: allēlūia!’ Sīc Beda, vir venerābilis, narrat.”
Notes
4th
declension nouns
adventus,
-ūs [4/m]: arrival
nātus,
-ūs [4/m]: birth
principātus,
-ūs [4/m]: rule; leadership
manus,
-ūs [4/f]: hand
domus, -ūs: house; irregular (declined either as 2nd or 4th declension)
https://adckl.blogspot.com/2024/05/130424-domus.html
https://www.facebook.com/groups/latinforstarters/permalink/423891043555503/
Links: 4th declension nouns; all posts
https://mega.nz/file/DA9mFBBY#Yj4KLIjYqE17OtRVQkSaJZqDv6jNyOnfZjGSaIPUsc0
[1]
nam basilicae
[feminine plural] … iam temporibus Rōmānīs aedificātae erant, ¦ quārum [feminine
plural; genitive] reliquiās ¦ vōs Dubrīs vīdistis │ For the basilicas
had already been built during Roman times, ¦ the remains of which ¦ you
have seen at Dover
[2]
Et uxor illīus
Aulī Plautiī … Chrīstiāna fuisse exīstimātur. │ And the wife of that
Aulius Plautius is thought / considered to have been a Christian.
sum, esse, fu¦ī
> fu¦isse │ to have been
See previous post:
Level 3; Sonnenschein; Prō Patriā [9]; Anglī et Saxonēs [1]
https://adckl.blogspot.com/2025/05/020925-level-3-sonnenschein-pro-patria.html
https://adckl2.blogspot.com/2025/05/level-3-sonnenschein-pro-patria-9-angli.html
[3]
nūntiī … crucem
argenteam et simulācrum Chrīstī in manibus tenentēs, et carmen sacrum cantantēs
│ the messengers … holding a silver cross and the image of Christ in
(their) hands, and singing a sacred song
Links: Present
active participle; all posts
https://mega.nz/file/DA9mFBBY#Yj4KLIjYqE17OtRVQkSaJZqDv6jNyOnfZjGSaIPUsc0
Exercise
Find the Latin:
- Saint Paul was deported ¦ to Rome
- She was accused ¦ of foreign / alien superstition
- The basilica had not been completely destroyed
- The basilicas had been built ¦ by the Christian Romans
- The wife … is considered / thought …
Background
[1] Beda: Bede,
also known as the Venerable Bede (La: Beda Venerabilis), an English monk and scholar, and one of the
best-known authors of the Early Middle Ages, his most famous work being the Ecclesiastical
History of the English People.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede
[2] Calleva
Atrebatum: an Iron Age settlement, capital of the Atrebates tribe and later a
walled town under Roman provincial rule. The village of Silchester is about a
mile from the site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calleva_Atrebatum
[3] Aulus Plautius:
Roman politician and general who began the Roman conquest of Britain in 43AD
and was the first governor of the province.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aulus_Plautius
[4] Pomponia
Graecina, wife of Aulus Plautius; “In 57 AD Pomponia was charged with
practising a "foreign superstition", which has been taken by some to
mean conversion to Christianity, although there were other regulated cults
in ancient Rome. “
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomponia_Graecina
Venerable Bede
in an illustrated manuscript, writing his ‘Ecclesiastical History of the
English People’; detail from a 12th-century codex
Site plan of
Calleva Atrebatum
Excavations at
Calleva Atrebatum
By Hut 8.5 at
English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37387778
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