[A] ____________________
Croesō, Lȳdiae rēgī,
fīlius erat, nōmine Atys. Hunc Croesus in somniō
vīdit, ferreā cuspide trāiectum et cruōre cōnspersum. Expergēfactus ille, domī fīlium retinet; deinde iacula
et hastās abdit in āreā.
[B] ____________________
Interim Sardēs vir
advēnit obstrictus scelere. Eum Croesus expiāvit, et benignē
accēpit. Tum eum percontātur hīs verbīs: "Quis es? Quem virum
occīdistī!"
[C] ____________________
Respondit hospes
tālia: "Ō rēx, Gordiae sum fīlius, est autem mihi nōmen Adrastō. Frātrem
meum invītus occīdī. Adsum ā patre ēiectus, rēbus omnibus dēstitūtus."
Tum Croesus inquit: "Ex virīs amīcīs oriundus es, et ad amīcōs
vēnistī." Ita ille in Croesī aedibus vītam agēbat.
[D] ____________________
Per idem tempus in
monte Olympō aper exstitit mīrā magnitūdine. Hic Mȳsōrum arva vastābat.
[E] ____________________
Mȳsōrum lēgātī
ad Croesum vēnēre haec dīcentēs: "Appāruit, ō rēx, in
regiōne nostrā immānis magnitūdinis aper. Hic agrestia opera omnia corrumpit.
Mitte fīlium tuum et dēlēctōs iuvenēs canēsque; nam bēluam ē terrā nostrā tollere
volumus.'
[F] ____________________
Haec illīs precantibus
Croesus, somnium recordātus, ita respondit: "Fīliī
quidem meī nē amplius fēceritis mentiōnem. Nōn enim illum vōbīscum ēmittere
possum. Lȳdōrum
autem dēlēctam manum canēsque
mittam.'
[G] ____________________
Audītīs Mȳsōrum precibus intervenit Atys. Patrem movēre
hīs verbīs cōnātur:
"Antehāc, ō pater, hoc
mihi honestissimum et nōbilissimum vīsum fuit,
bellō et vēnātiōne glōriam parāre. Nē igitur mē domī retinuerīs. Quis tandem
esse vidēbor cīvibus? Quālis vidēbor uxōrī?"
Vocabulary
abdō, -ere, abdidī,
abditus [3]: hide
agrestis, -e: of /
pertaining to land (fields, the countryside); rustic, rural
area, -ae [1/f]: a
piece of vacant ground
arvum, -ī [2/n]:
field; farm land
bēlua, -ae [1/f]:
wild animal; monster
expergefaciō, -ere,
-fēcī, -factus [3-iō]: wake up; arouse
expiō, -āre, -āvī,
-ātus [1]: purify, relieve guilt
exsistō, -ere,
exstitī [3]: [i] be, exist; [ii] appear, arise
hospes, hospitis
[3/m]: [i] guest; [ii] host; [iii] (here) stranger, foreigner
invītus, -a, -um:
unwilling; note the use of an adjective to describe the performer of the
action, a common feature of Latin, rather than an English adverb to describe
the action itself
obstringō, -ere,
obstrīnxī, obstrictus [3]: bind, tie, fetter; with scelus, sceleris [3/n]:
crime; evil deed, the perfect passive participle can be translated as “having
been involved in / found guilty of”
percontor, -ārī,
percontātus sum [1/dep]: question strictly; interrogate
recordor, -ārī,
-ātus sum [1/dep]: remember; note: recordātus = having remembered
venātiō, vēnātiōnis
[3/f]: hunt; hunting
Notes
nē
(mentiōnem) fēceritis: do not make (mention); nē … mē domī retinuerīs:
do not keep me at home
This is an
alternative way of making a negative command in Latin. It involves the use of
the subjunctive and will be discussed in a later post.
[1] Fill in the
blanks in the text with the appropriate title [A] – [G] of each section:
A huge wild
boar ravages the country.
Atys implores
his father to let him go.
Croesus has a
bad dream about his son Atys.
Croesus
refuses.
He purifies a
man who comes to him stained with crime.
The people beg
Croesus to send his son to kill it.
The stranger
tells his story — Croesus receives him as a friend.
[2] Find the
Latin:
[a]
- Here I am [i] driven
out ¦ by my father and [ii] bereft ¦ of all things.
- send the chosen
young men
- the chosen band
(of men)
- having been
woken up, he …
- having been
pierced by an iron weapon
(i.e. the pointed end of, for example, a javelin)
- having been
strewn / spattered with
blood
- having
remembered the dream
- involved in a crime [literally: having been
bound …]
[b]
- with the prayers having been heard [ =
after the prayers had been heard]
- (Croesus replied)
to them praying / begging for these things [ = as they were
begging for these things]
- while saying these things
[c]
- this has seemed
to me
- Who shall I
seem to be (to the citizens)?; How (what kind of person) shall I seem
(to my wife)?
____________________
[A] Croesus
has a bad dream about his son Atys.
[B] He
purifies a man who comes to him stained with crime.
[C] The
stranger tells his story — Croesus receives him as a friend.
[D] A huge
wild boar ravages the country.
[E] The
people beg Croesus to send his son to kill it.
[F] Croesus
refuses.
[G] Atys
implores his father to let him go.
[A] Croesus, king of
Lydia, had a son by name Atys. Croesus, in a dream, saw him pierced with an
iron weapon, and sprinkled with blood. On awaking [ = having been woken up], he
keeps his son at home; next he hides the javelins and spears in a piece of
vacant ground.
[B] Meanwhile there
arrived at Sardis a man involved in a crime. Croesus purified him, and received
him kindly. Then he questions him in these words: ‘Who are you? What man have
you slain?’
[C] The stranger
replied as follows: ‘O king, I am the son of Gordias; moreover, my name is
Adrastus. I killed my brother by accident / unwillingly. Here I am,
expelled by my father, deprived of all my property.’ Then Croesus said:
“You are descended from friends, and have come to friends.” So he began to lead
his life in the palace of Croesus.
[D] About the same
time there appeared in Mount Olympus a wild boar of wonderful size. It began to
ravage the farm lands of the Mysians.
[E] The ambassadors of
the Mysians came to Croesus saying these words: ‘O king! a boar of huge size
has appeared in our district. He is destroying all the works / labours of the
countryside [= everything done in the countryside]. Send your son and chosen
youths and hounds, for we wish to remove the brute from our country.’
[F] To them making
this prayer, Croesus, remembering / having remembered his dream, replied as
follows: ‘Of my son, indeed, make mention no more. For I cannot send him out
with you. But I shall send a chosen band of Lydians and hounds.’
[G] With the prayers
of the Mysians having been heard [ = after the prayers … had been heard] Atys
interrupts / intervens. He tries to move his father with these words:
‘Formerly, my father, this seemed to me most noble and glorious to win honour
in war and the chase / hunt. Therefore, do not keep me at home. What, in the
end, shall I seem to the citizens to be? What kind of man shall I seem to my
wife!’
