February 20, 2011

19. Lucius Mummius


          


Lúcius Múmmius
qui,
Coríntho capta,
totam Itáliam
tábulis statuísque exornávit,
ex tantis manúbiis
nihil
in suum usum convértit
ut,
eo defúncto,
non esset
unde eius fília
dotem accíperet.
Quare senátus
ei
ex público
dotem decrévit.


(image: ancient Corinth)

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

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