February 19, 2011

6. Infantes et Lupa


          


Quo cógnito,
Amúlius
ipsam in víncula coniécit,
parvulósque
álveo impósitos
abiécit in Tíberim,
qui tunc
forte
super ripas erat effúsus;
sed,
relabénte flúmine,
eos
aqua in sicco relíquit.
Vastae tum
in iis locis
solitúdines erant.
Lupa,
ut fama tráditum est,
ad vagítum occurrit,
infántes lingua lambit,
úbera
eórum ori admóvit,
matrémque se gessit.




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

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