HORĀTIUS PUER (2)
Tandem in caelō
columbās albās vidēbant. Columbae per caelum undique volābant et folia ad locum
herbōsum portābant. Parentēs ad locum contendērunt et ecce! īnfāns in herbā
placidus impavidusque dormītābat; columbae in terrā, in arboribus passim
sedēbant; columbae per caelum volābant, et parvulī corpus foliīs tegēbant. Nec
lupī nec ursī īnfantem necāverant, quia Mūsae poētam etiam īnfantem semper
cōnservant.
Post multōs annōs
Horātius, iam adolēscēns, Rōmam, magnam urbem, incolēbat. Sed dīvīna rūra et
vītam rūsticam semper laudābat. Mūsae per multa perīcula poētam cōnservāvērunt.
Horātiī carmina per tōtum orbem terrārum etiam nunc nōta et praeclāra sunt. Vōs
quoque Horātiī carmina mox lēgētis et in memoriae tabulīs scrībētis.
[i]
adolēscēns, -entis
[3 m/f]: young; just grown up
arbor, -oris
[3/f]: tree
carmen, -inis
[3/n]: song
columba, -ae
[1/f]: dove
folium, -ī [2/n]:
leaf
infāns, -fantis [3
m/f]: infant
Mūsae, -ārum [1/f
pl.]: Muses, nine goddesses
orbis, -is [3/m]:
circle; orbis terrārum: the whole world
perīculum, -ī
[2/n]: danger
vīta, -ae [1/f]:
life
[ii]
cōnservō, -āre
[1]: save, protect
contendō, -ere
[3]: hasten
legō, -ere [3]:
read
scrībō, -ere [3]:
write
tegō, -ere [3]:
cover
volō, -āre [1]:
fly
[iii]
nōtus, -a, -um:
well known; famous
[iv]
passim: everywhere
quia: because
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At last they
caught sight of white doves in the sky. The doves were flying everywhere
through the sky and carrying leaves to a grassy spot. The parents hurried to
the place—and look! the child was lying on the grass, calm and fearless,
asleep; doves were sitting here and there on the ground and in the trees; doves
were flying through the sky, and they were covering the little body with
leaves. Neither wolves nor bears had killed the child, because the Muses always
protect the poet, even as an infant.
After many years
Horace, now a young man, was living at Rome, a great city. But he always
praised the divine countryside and the rustic life. The Muses preserved the
poet through many dangers. The poems of Horace are even now known and famous
throughout the whole world. You too will soon read the poems of Horace and will
write them on your tablets of memory.
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