BACCHUS ET PĪRĀTAE (2)
Deus, ubi trāns
mare Aegaeum quondam nāvigābat, ad īnsulam parvam nāvem gubernāvit, et
errōribus longīs fessus, sē in ōrā maritimā prōstrāvit et somnō placidō corpus
animumque recreābat. Mox autem pīrātae quoque, malī hominēs, nāvem ad īnsulam
impulērunt.
Ubi iuvenem
fōrmōsum in ōrā vīdērunt, tum vērō magnō gaudiō, "Ecce!" inquiunt,
"nōn sine praedā ad patriam nostram nāvigābimus. Hominem raptābimus et in
nāvem fūrtim impōnēmus, tum cito cum captīvō ad Āfricam nāvem impellēmus.
Āfricae incolae servōs dēsīderant, et pecūniam multam nōbīs dabunt, sī nōs
iuvenem tam pulchrum trādiderimus."
Tum pīrātae, malī
ignāvīque hominēs, deum raptāvērunt et in nāvem imposuērunt; nec tamen iuvenem
fessum ē somnō excitāvērunt.
[i]
Africa, -ae [1/f]:
Africa
captīvus, -ī
[2/m]: captive
incola, -ae [1
m/f]: inhabitant
mare, -is [3/n]:
sea
nāvis, -is [3/f]:
ship
praeda, -ae [1/f]:
plunder
[ii]
excitō, -āre [1]:
arouse
impellō, -ere [3]:
impel, drive
impōnō, -ere [3]:
put in or on
prosternō, -ere
[3]: prostrate, overthrow
trādō, -ere [3]:
hand over
[iii]
Aegaeus, -a, -um:
Aegean
ignāvus, -a, -um:
cowardly, base
[iv]
nōs: we
sē: himself,
herself, itself (reflexive)
sī: if
sine (+ abl.):
without
tam: so
trans (+ acc.):
across
vēro: indeed
quondam: once upon
a time
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Once, when the god
was sailing across the Aegean Sea, he steered his ship toward a small island,
and, weary from long wanderings, he stretched himself out on the seashore and
refreshed both body and mind with peaceful sleep. Soon, however, pirates also—wicked
men—drove their ship to the island.
When they saw the
handsome young man on the shore, then indeed with great delight they said,
“Look! We shall not sail to our homeland without plunder. We shall seize the
man and secretly put him on board the ship; then we shall quickly drive the
ship with the captive to Africa. The inhabitants of Africa desire slaves, and
will give us much money if we hand over so handsome a young man.”
Then the pirates,
wicked and cowardly men, carried off the god and put him on the ship; and yet
they did not rouse the weary youth from sleep.
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