March 15, 2011

28b. Hydra Lernae




Olim
in palúde versabátur
hydra.
Haec
novem cápita habébat.
Cápita vero octo
ábscidit Hércules,
nonum autem
vulneráre non póterat;
immortále enim erat.
Abscísso quoque cápite,
bina statim enascebántur.
His tandem
igne consúmptis,
caput immortále
sub saxo ingénti
cóndidit Hércules.
Bélua ita devícta,
sagíttas
venenáto sánguine tinxit.


TEXT SOURCE: Selections from Latin Authors for Sight-Reading, by Everett Titsworth Tomlinson (1886). This book does not have a vocabulary list in the back.

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