Wednesday, February 29, 2012

By chance I was going through the sacred road, that is my custom,
I know not of such things of trifles, contemplating totally in this.
A man ran to me, known by such a great name and seized my hand:
"How do you go, sweetest thing?" "Pleasingly, just as is now," I said, 
"and I desire all, which you wish." When he was following: "You wish nothing?" 
I take over, but that one says "You should know me, I am taught (learned?)." 
I said this: "You will be more to me." Miserable, seeking to leave, I go, just as fast, to stop in between, I do not know to say what in the ear of the boy when sweat remained at the bottom of my ankles. "Oh you, Bolanus, lucky temper." I was saying softly, when he was chatting of what things, he was praising the city by neighborhoods. That I was responding nothing to that one: "You desire to leave miserable," he said; "Already I see that for a long time. Hence, I will pursue who now is where you go." By you go nowhere: "I will keep on continuously. It is not necessary to go around you: I wish to see certainly not known to you; across the long Tiber close to the gardens of Caesar he resides." "I have nothing, what I am doing and I am not lazy: I follow you continuously." I send away ears, just as a donkey is confused, when he goes under the heavy task of a hill. That one said "If I know me well, you will not make Viscus Varius not more of a friend: for who is able to write more or faster of verses than me? Who to move limbs softly? Because Hermogenes would be jealous of how I sing." This was a place of interrupting: "Is your mother known, what of you is healthy? Not anyone left of me; I buried all." Lucky! Now I remain. Finish! And for a sad fate stays over me, A Sabine who in a divine way shaking her urn said when I was a boy: this boy neither terrible poison or hostile sword will kill, neither side pain or late gout: a great chatterbox will consume him sometime. If he is smart, he will avoid speech (speaking people?), at the same time as the middle of his life." We had come to Vesta, now the fourth part of the day had passed, and he had to respond to a priest, because if he did not make he would owe to lose the case.

***The Yellow is where I had trouble/questions/unsure how to construct those parts.

No comments:

Post a Comment