27.12.26: Level 1-2 (review): Julia (a Latin Reader) [8] (3)

BACCHUS ET PĪRĀTAE (3)

Ubi autem Bacchus ē somnō sē excitāvit, et undās caeruleās undique vīdit, tum nec īrātus nec perterritus, "Nōn ego," inquit, "stultōs ignāvōsque timeō; mox tamen pīrātae nūmen meum vidēbunt et vehementer timēbunt."

Tum ē mediā nāve vītis flōrēbat et in altum ascendēbat. Ē vīte rāmī, ē rāmīs pampinī flōrēbant, et dē summīs rāmīs ūvae purpureae pendēbant. Nōn iam candida erant vēla, sed lūce purpureā fulgēbant.

Ubi nautae vītem mīram in mediā nāve vīdērunt, tum magnō timōre deum spectāvērunt; capillī in capitibus horruērunt. Subitō ex undīs tigrēs leōnēsque saevī in nāvem ascendērunt et in nautās perterritōs cucurrērunt. Pīrātae, terrōris plēnī, ē nāve in mare sē prōstrāvērunt. Deinde Iuppiter propter misericordiam hominēs in delphīnōs convertit.

Intereā Neptūnus vēla purpurea ventīs secundīs implēvit, et sōlus sub vītium umbrā Bacchus ad terrās longinquās nāvigāvit.

[i]

delphīn, -inis [3/m]: dolphin

ego: I

leō, leōnis [3/m]: lion

lūx, lūcis [3/f]: light

misericordia, -ae [1/f]: pity

Neptūnus, -ī [2/m]: Neptune, god of the sea

rāmus, -ī [2/m]: branch

terror, -ōris [3/m]: terror

tigris, -is [3 m/f]: tiger

vēlum, -ī [2/n]: sail

[ii]

ascendō, -ere [3]: climb

convertō, -ere [3]: turn, change

currō, -ere [3]: run

impleō, -ēre [2]: fill

pendeō, -ēre [2]: hang

[iii]

candidus, -a, -um: white

secundus, -a, -um: favourable

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But when Bacchus roused himself from sleep and saw the blue waves on every side, he was neither angry nor afraid. “I,” he said, “do not fear foolish and cowardly men; soon, however, the pirates will see my divine power and will be greatly afraid.”

Then from the middle of the ship a vine began to grow and climbed high. From the vine branches spread, from the branches vine-leaves grew, and from the topmost branches purple grapes were hanging. The sails were no longer white, but were gleaming with a purple light.

When the sailors saw the strange vine in the middle of the ship, then with great fear they looked at the god; their hair stood on end. Suddenly from the waves savage tigers and lions climbed onto the ship and ran at the terrified sailors. The pirates, full of terror, threw themselves from the ship into the sea. Then Jupiter, out of pity, changed the men into dolphins.

Meanwhile Neptune filled the purple sails with favourable winds, and Bacchus, alone beneath the shade of the vine, sailed on to distant lands.