LAT102 Final Passages

Conchae omnes celerrime crescunt, praecipue purpurae: annomagnitudinem implent.

All sea snails grow very quickly, especially the purple ones: they fill up their size within a year.

Namque fore inlustrem fama fatisque canebant ipsam, sed populo magnum portendere bellum.

And so they were singing that she herself was about to be distinguished with respect to her destiny and reputation, but that she was predicting a great war for her people.

Ut vero domum veni, iacebat miles meus in lecto tanquam bovis, et collum illius medicus curabat. Intellexi illum versipellem esse.

But when I came home, my soldier was lying in bed just like a bull and the doctor was fixing his neck; I understood he was a werewolf.

Cladius Caesar script hippocentaurum in Thessalia natum eodem die interisse; et nos principatu eius adlatum illi ex Aegypto in melle vidimus.

Claudius Caesar writes that a centaur, born in Thessalia, died on the same day, in the time of his reign, we saw him carried from Egypt in honey to him.

Ctesias scribit, et in quandam gente Indiae feminas semel in vita parere genitosque confestim canescere.

Ctesias writes that even in some tribes of India, women give birth once in life and the children immediately white.

Nec aliud animal ex minore origine in maiorem crescitmagnitudinem.

No other animal grows into greater size from a smaller origin.

Mutant colorem candidum menae et fiunt aestate nigriores.

Small fish change their bright color and become darker in the summer.

Non nulli falsum hunc phoenicem neque Arabum e terris credidere nihilque usurpavisse ex his quae vetus memoria firmavit.

Some people have believed that this Phoenix was fake and was not from the land of the Arabs--it made use of nothing of those things which ancient memory had maintained.

Velocissimum omnium animalium, non solum marinorum, est delphinus, ocior volucre, acrior telo.

The swiftest of all animals, not only of the sea, the dolphin, faster than a bird, quicker than a sphere.