. Latin for beginners . ost breve tempus ^ad sanitatem reductus tantum scelus expiarecupiebat et constituit ad oraculum Delphicum iter facere. Hoc autem25 oraculum erat omnium clarissimum. Ibi sedebat femina quaedam quaePythia appellabatur. Ea consilium dabat iis qui ad oraculum veniebant. ^ ei, to her, referring to Juno. 2 ^^ . . et, both . . and, ^ domum,§ * a ^UQXo^from boyhood. ^ vires, from vis. Cf. § 468. ^ Thebis,§ 501. ^ coegit, from cogo. ^ in furorem incidit, went mad, ^ adS&nitatem reductus, lit. led back to sanity. What in good English? HERCULES STRANGLES THE NEMEAN L
. Latin for beginners . ost breve tempus ^ad sanitatem reductus tantum scelus expiarecupiebat et constituit ad oraculum Delphicum iter facere. Hoc autem25 oraculum erat omnium clarissimum. Ibi sedebat femina quaedam quaePythia appellabatur. Ea consilium dabat iis qui ad oraculum veniebant. ^ ei, to her, referring to Juno. 2 ^^ . . et, both . . and, ^ domum,§ * a ^UQXo^from boyhood. ^ vires, from vis. Cf. § 468. ^ Thebis,§ 501. ^ coegit, from cogo. ^ in furorem incidit, went mad, ^ adS&nitatem reductus, lit. led back to sanity. What in good English? HERCULES STRANGLES THE NEMEAN LION 199 LV. HERCULES BECOMES SUBJECT TO EURYSTHEUS1HE STRANGLES THE NEMEAN LION Itaque Hercules Pythiae totam rem demonstravit nee scelus suumabdidit. Ubi iam Hercules finem fecit, Pythia iussit eum ad urbemTiryntha^ discedere et ibi regi Eurystheo sese committere. Quae^ ubiaudlvit, Hercules ad illam urbem statim contendit et Eurystheo se inservitutem tradidit et dixit, ^Quid primum, O rex, me facere lubes? 5. HERCULES LEONEM SUPERAT Eurystheus, qui perterrebatur vi et corpore ingenti Herculis et eumoccidi* studebat, ita respondit: Audi, Hercules! Multamira^ narranturde leone saevissimo qui hoc tempore in valle Nemaea omnia te, virorum omnium fortissimum, illo monstro homines libe-rare. Haec verba Herculi maxime placuerunt. ^Properabo, inquit, 10 1 Eu-rystheus (pronounced U-risthus) was king of Tt7yns, a Grecian city,whose foundation goes back to prehistoric times. ^ Tiryntha, the ace. caseof Tiryns, a Greek noun. ^ Quae, obj. of audivit. It is placed first to makea close connection with the preceding sentence. This is called a connectingrelative. ^ occidi, pres. pass, infin. ^ mira, marvelous thingsy the used as a noun. Cf. omnia, in the next line. 200 SLAYING THE LERNEAN HYDRA et parebo imperio^ tuo. Turn in silvas in quibus leo habitabatstatim iter fecit. Mox feram vidit et pluris impetus fecit; frustratamen, quod neque sagittis neque ullo alio telo
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