04.09.25: The best place to start Latin poetry is … in a cave! [1]

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Salvēte│ Hello,

Modo invēnī hanc spēluncam │ I’ve just found this cave,

Nunc intrābō, │ I’ll go in now,

Venīte mēcum │ Come with me.

Laetus per campōs comite errō cum cane fīdō │ Happily through the fields I wander with my dog, the faithful companion

Obscūrum specus ēn cernimus esse procul │ And look! We see that a dark cave is at a distance

Intrāmus deinde in nemorāle antrum sine cūrā │ We finally go into the woodland cave without a care

Intus Arachnēs ēn rētia lympha latet │ Look, within lie hidden the webs of Arachne and the water

antrum, -ī [2/n]: cave; cavern

comes, comitis [3 m/f]: companion

ēn: look!

lympha, -ae [1/f]: the most common Latin word for water is aqua, -ae [1/f]; lympha is a poetic term

nemorālis, -e: (adj.) referring to groves or woods

rēte, -is [3/n]: net; snare; (here) referring to spider webs with the connection to Arachnē [Gen. Arachnēs; Greek-type noun] who, in Greek mythology, was changed into a spider; Engl. deriv. arachnid

Arachnēs … rētia │ the webs of Arachne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne

specus [4 m/f/n]: cave; grotto