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Latin Term 1
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“Anna soror, quae me suspensam insomnia terrent!
“Anna sister, what dreams terrify and hold me in suspense!
Quis novus hic nostris successit sedibus hospes,
What an unexpected visitor is this who has sought protection in our house,
quem sese ore ferens, quam forti pectore et armis!
bearing himself with what an aspect, how strong in chest and shoulders!
Credo equidem, nec vana fides, genus esse deorum.
I truly believe, and my confidence is not in vain, his family to be of the gods.
Degeneres animos timor arguit:
Fear makes known degenerate minds:
heu, quibus ille iactatus fatis! Quae bella exhausta canebat!
Alas, by what fates has he been tossed about! What an expression of warfare he was singing!
Si mihi non animo fixum immotumque sederet
If it was not for me sitting fixed and immovable in my mind
ne cui me vinclo vellem sociare iugali,
that I am not willing to join with anyone in nuptial bonds
postquam primus amor deceptam morte fefellit;
after my first love disappointed and deceived me by his death
si non pertaesum thalami taedaeque fuisset,
if I had not been utterly weary of bridal chamber and marriage torch,
huic uni forsan potui succumbere culpae.
perhaps I could have surrendered to this one fault.
Anna, fatebor enim, miseri post fata Sychaei coniugus
Anna, for I will confess, after the fate of my poor husband Sychaeus
et sparsos fraterna caede Penatis,
and the household gods splattered with blood spread by my brother
solus hic inflexit sensus, animumque labantem
impulit:
this man alone has turned my senses and driven my heart so as to fall:
agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.
I recognise the traces of the former flame.
Sed mihi vel tellus optem prius ima dehiscat,
But I would wish that either the depths if the earth should swallow me up,
vel Pater omnipotens adigat me fulmine ad umbras,
or the almighty father should strike me with lightning to the shades,
pallentis umbras Erebi noctemque profundam,
to the pale shades and the deep night in Erebus
ante, Pudor, quam te violo, aut tua iura resolvo.
before, Conscience I violate you and undo your laws.
Ille meos, primus qui me sibi iunxit, amores
abstulit;
He who first married me, stole my affections away;
ille habeat secum servetque sepulchro.”
let him have them with himself and keep them in the tomb.”
Sic effata sinum lacrimis implevit obortis.
With this said, her tears, bursting forth, filled up her lap.