Eduquas GCSE Latin: Horace

impios parrae recinentis omen ducat et praegnans canis

Let an omen of a hooting owl escort the wicked and a pregnant dog,

aut ab agro rava decurrens lupa lanuvino fetaque volles;

or a tawny she-wolf running down from the

kl of Lanuvium and a pregnant fox;

rumpat et serpens iter institutum

Let a snake interrupt the journey they have begun

si per obliquum similis sagittae terruit manos

if, coming from the side like an arrow, it has terrified the horses

ego cui timebo providus auspex

for the person I worry about I, being a far-sighted augur

antequam stantes repetat paludes imbrium divina avis imminentum

Before the bird that portends impending rain-storms can get back to the stagnant marshes

oscinem corvum prece suscitabo Solis ab ortu

shall conjure up a prophetic crow from the rising of the sun.

Sis lecit felix, ubicumque mavis, et memor nostri, Galatea, vivas, teque nec laevus vetet ire picus nec vaga cornix

May you be happy, wherever you prefer to go, and may you remeber me, galatea, for the rest of your life, and may neither an ill omened woodpecker prevent your journey nor a wandering magpie