Pyramus & Thisbe (Test 2)

Front 1

in loca plēna metūs quī iussī nocte venīrēs

Back 1

[I] who, in places full of dread, ordered you to come by night,

Front 2

nec prior huc veni. nostrum divellite corpus

Back 2

nor did come here first. Tear apart our body

Front 3

et scelerata fero consumite viscera morsu,

Back 3

and devour our wicked entrails with your fierce bite,

Front 4

o quīcumque sub hāc habitātīs rūpe leōnēs!

Back 4

O whatever lions dwell under this rock!

Front 5

sed timidi est optare necem.' velamina Thisbes

Back 5

But it belongs to a timid man to wish for death.' Thisbe’s veil

Front 6

tollit et ad pactae secum fert arboris umbram,

Back 6

he lifts, and brings it with him to the shade of the tree agreed [on],

Front 7

utque dedit notae lacrimas, dedit oscula vesti,

Back 7

and as he shed [dedit] tears, and gave [dedit] kisses to the well-known garment,

Front 8

'accipe nunc' inquit 'nostri quoque sanguinis haustus!'

Back 8

'accept now', he said, 'draughts of our blood too!'

Front 9

quoque erat accinctus, demisit in ilia ferrum,

Back 9

and he sent into his bowels the iron [sword] with which he had girt himself,

Front 10

nec moră, ferventī moriens e vulnere traxit.

Back 10

nor was [there] delay: dying he dragged the sword from his steaming wound.

Front 11

ut iacuit resupinus humo, cruor emicat alte,

Back 11

As he lay on his back on the ground, blood spurts high,

Front 12

non aliter quam cum vitiato fistulă plumbo

Back 12

no otherwise than when, split with damaged lead, a pipe

Front 13

scinditur et tenui stridente foramine longas

Back 13

is cut, and through a thin hissing hole, a long stream of water

Front 14

eiaculatur aquas atque ictibus aera rumpit.

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is spurted out and breaks the air with strokes.

Front 15

arborei fetūs adspergine caedis in atram

Back 15

The fruits of the tree turn the appearance black with a sprinkling

Front 16

vertuntur faciem, madefactaque sanguine radix

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of slaughter, and the root soaked with blood

Front 17

purpureō tinguit pendentia mōra colōrē.

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dye the hanging mulberries with purple color.

Front 18

“Ecce metu nondum posito, ne fallat amantem,

Back 18

Behold with fear not yet placed aside, lest she should fail her lover

Front 19

illa redit iuvenemque oculis animoque requirit,

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she returns and seeks the young man with her eyes and in spirit

Front 20

quantaque vitarit narrare pericula gestit;

Back 20

she longs to tell how many dangers she avoided;

Front 21

utque locum et visā cognoscit in arbore formam,

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and as she knows the place and the form of the tree seen,

Front 22

sic facit incertam pomi color: haeret, an haec sit.

Back 22

so the color of the fruit makes her unsure: she is uncertain if this is [the tree].

Front 23

dum dubitat, tremebunda videt pulsare cruentum

Back 23

While she hesitates, she sees that quivering limbs beat the blood-stained

Front 24

membra solum, retroque pedem tulit, oraque buxo

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soil, and she carried a foot backwards, she shuddered

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pallidiora gerens exhorruit aequoris instar,

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bearing an expression [lit. a face] paler than a boxwood, like the water surface

Front 26

quod tremit, exigua cum summum stringitur aura.

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which trembles when the top is grazed by a slight breeze.

Front 27

sed postquam remorata suos cognovit amores,

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but after, having paused, she recognized her own love,

Front 28

percutit indignos claro plangore lacertos

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she strikes her unworthy arms with shrill lamentation

Front 29

et laniata comas amplexaque corpus amatum

Back 29

and mangled to her hair and having embraced the beloved body

Front 30

vulnera supplevit lacrimis fletumque cruori

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she filled the wound with tears and mixed her weeping with

Front 31

miscuit et gelidis in vultibus oscula figens

Back 31

the gore and fixing kisses on cold countenances,

Front 32

‘Pyrame,’ clamavit, ‘quis te mihi cāsus ademit?

Back 32

she shouted “O Pyramus, what misfortune takes you from me?

Front 33

Pyrame, responde! tua te carissima Thisbe

Back 33

O Pyramus, respond! Your most dear Thisbe

Front 34

nominat; exaudi vultusque attolle iacentes!’

Back 34

calls you; heed and lift your lying countenances!”

Front 35

ad nomen Thisbes oculos a morte gravatos

Back 35

At the name ‘Thisbe’ Pyramus stirred eyes made heavy by death

Front 36

Pyramus ērexit visāque recondidit illā.

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and closed them again after she was seen.

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“Quae postquam vestemque suam cognovit et ense

Back 37

“After she recognized her veil, she saw the ivory [sheath] without

Front 38

vidit ebur vacuum, ‘tua te manus’ inquit ‘amorque

Back 38

a sharpened point, [and] said “your hand and love has destroyed you,

Front 39

perdidit, infelix! est et mihi fortis in unum

Back 39

o unlucky one! For this one thing I have both

Front 40

hōc manus, est et amor: dābit hǐc in vulnera vires

Back 40

a brave hand and the love: this [love] will give strength to wounds.

Front 41

persequar extinctum letique miserrima dicar

Back 41

I’ll accompany [you] perished, and I most disturbed will be said

Front 42

causa comesque tui: quique a me morte revelli

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your death’s cause and companion: you who could be plucked away from me

Front 43

heu sola poteras, poteris nec morte revelli.

Back 43

alas by death alone, nor can you be torn away by death.

Front 44

hōc tāmēn ambōrum verbīs estōte rogāti,

Back 44

however be this to be asked with words of both [of us],

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ō multum miseri meus illiusque parentes,

Back 45

o my and his most wretched parents

Front 46

ut, quos certus amor, quos hora novissima iunxit,

Back 46

begrudge not us, whom certain love, whom the final hour joined,

Front 47

conponi tumulo non invideatis eodem;

Back 47

to be placed together in the same afterlife;

Front 48

at tu, quae ramis arbor miserabile corpus

Back 48

but you tree, who covers the miserable corpse of one now

Front 49

nunc tegis unius, mox es tectura duorum,

Back 49

with branches, are soon to cover [the bodies] of two,

Front 50

signa tene caedis pullosque et luctibus aptos

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hold signs of slaughter and always have fruit, dark

Front 51

semper habē fetūs, geminī monumenta cruoris.’

Back 51

and fitting for sorrows, as tokens of double bloodshed.”

Front 52

dixit et aptato pectus mucrone sub imum

Back 52

She spoke and with the point of the sword placed under her lowest chest

Front 53

incubuit ferro, quod adhuc a caede tepebat.

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she lay upon the sword, which still was warm from his bloodshed.

Front 54

vota tamen tetigere deos, tetigere parentes;

Back 54

Nevertheless her prayer touched the gods, touched her parents:

Front 55

nam color in pomo est, ubi permaturuit, ater,

Back 55

for the color is in the fruit, when it has thoroughly matured, black,

Front 56

quodque rogis superest, una requiescit in urna.”

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and that which remains from the funeral pyre, rests in one urn.”