February 19, 2011

7. Epaminondas


          


Epaminóndas,
Thebanórum imperátor,
in pugna
ad Mantinéam
gráviter vulnerátus est.
Cum ánimam recepísset,
interrogávit circumstántes amícos,
"Num clípeus salvus esset?"
Deinde,
"Num hostes fusi essent?"
Illi
utrúmque affirmavérunt.
Tum demum
hastam e córpore éxtrahi
iussit.
Quo facto
statim exspirávit.


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

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