February 20, 2011

18. Fabricius and Pyrrhus


          


Cum rex Pyrrhus
pópulo Románo
bellum ultro intulísset,
pérfuga
ab eo venit
in castra Fabrícii
eíque est pollícitus,
si praémium proposuísset,
se,
ut clam venísset,
sic clam
in Pyrrhi castra reditúrum
et eum venéno necatúrum.
Hunc
Fabrícius
reducéndum curávit ad Pyrrhum,
idque factum eius
a senátu laudátum est.


TEXT SOURCE: First Easy Latin Reading Book - Anecdotes, by Edmund Fowle (1877). Vocabulary Lists in back of book.

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