March 15, 2011

28i. Hippolyte, Amazonum Regina




Hippólyte, Amázonum regína,
zonam pulchérrimam habébat.
Hac autem potíri
volébat
Adméte, Eurýsthei fília:
ítaque Hércules
eam asportáre
iussus est.
Tandem
ad Amázonum terram pervénit.
Ibi primum
benígne excépit Hippólyte,
zonámque promísit,
sed coórta rixa,
contra Hérculem
Amázones
manus conseruérunt.
His victis
et occísa Hippólyte,
Hércules
zona potítus est.


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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