Baucis & Philemon 12-25

ergo ubi caelicolae parvos tetigere penates

Therefore, when the heaven-dwellers reached their little home,

summissoque humiles intrarunt vertice postes,

and they entered the humble doorway with bowed head,

membra senex posito iussit relevare sedili;

the old man told them to rest their limbs on a seat he placed.

cui superiniecit textum rude sedula Baucis

Bustling Baucis threw a rough cover over it,

inde foco tepidum cinerem dimovit et ignes

then she stirred the warm ash in the hearth

suscitat hesternos foliisque et cortice sicco

and rekindled yesterday's fire and feeds it with leaves and dry bark

nutrit et ad flammas anima producit anili

and coaxes flames with her elderly breath,

multifidasque faces ramaliaque arida tecto

and she brought down finely-split sticks and dry twigs from the roof

detulit et minuit parvoque admovit aeno,

and chopped them up, and put them under a little cauldron,

quodque suus coniunx riguo conlegerat horto,

and the vegetables, which her husband had gathered in the well-watered garden,

truncat holus foliis; furca levat ille bicorni

she strips of the leaves; he lifts down with a two-pronged fork

sordida terga suis nigro pendentia tigno

the smoked back hanging on a blackened beam

servatoque diu resecat de tergore partem

and from the back which has been kept a long time

exiguam sectamque domat ferventibus undis.

she cuts* off a small part and makes it tender in the boiling water.