18.10.26: Level 1-2 (review): Julia (a Latin Reader) [1] (3)

Agricola ad casam venit. Fīlia parva nōn est in casā. Tum agricola, "Iūlia," exclāmat, "fīlia mea, ubi es?"

Iterum Iūliam vocat, sed frūstrā--nūlla est puella. Cēnā nōn est in mēnsā parāta, nec rosae in mēnsā sunt. Tum ad ōram maritimam properat et procul nāviculam albam spectat. Ad nautārum casās properat.

Nautārum fīliae perterritae, "Cum pīrātīs," inquiunt, "est Iūlia tua."

Magna est īra agricolae. Galeam et hastam raptat. Nautae nāviculam suam agricolae dant. Nautae quoque galeās et hastās raptant, et cum agricolā ad pīrātārum nāviculam properant.

Tum agricola pīrātās vocat. "Ubi," inquit, "est fīlia mea?"

Pīrātae, "Fīlia tua," inquiunt, "in nāviculā nostrā est."

Tum agricola pecūniam multam pīrātīs dat. Pīrātae Iūliam ad agricolae nāviculam portant.

[1]

cēna, -ae [1/f]: dinner

īra, -ae [1/f]: anger

mēnsa, -ae [1/f]: table

pecūnia, -ae [1/f]: money

[2]

magnus, -a, -um: great, large

nūllus, -a, -um: no, none

parātus, -a, -um: prepared

perterritus, -a, -um: terrified

[3]

exclāmō, exclāmāre [1]: call out

properō, properāre [1]: hurry

rapiō, rapere [3]: seize

vocō, vocāre [1]: call

[4]

iterum: again

nec: and not

procul: at a distance

ubi: where

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The farmer comes to the house. The little daughter is not in the house. Then the farmer shouts, “Julia, my daughter, where are you?”

He calls Julia again, but in vain—there is no girl. Dinner is not prepared on the table, nor are there roses on the table. Then he hurries to the seashore and sees a white boat in the distance. He hurries to the sailors’ houses.

The sailors’ daughters, terrified, say, “Your Julia is with pirates.”

The farmer’s anger is great. He snatches a helmet and a spear. The sailors give their boat to the farmer. The sailors also snatch helmets and spears, and they hurry with the farmer to the pirates’ boat.

Then the farmer calls the pirates. “Where,” he says, “is my daughter?”

The pirates say, “Your daughter is in our boat.”

Then the farmer gives much money to the pirates. The pirates carry Julia to the farmer’s boat.