Latin- Literature- Baucis + Philemon lines 1-25

Iuppiter huc specie mortali cumque parente

Jupiter came here in human form and, with his father,

venit Adlantiades positis caducifer alis

came the wand-bearing descendant of Atlas, having set aside his wings.

mille domos adiere locum requiemque petentes

They approached a thousand houses, seeking a place to rest;

mille domos clausere serae. tamen una recepit

bolts shut a thousand homes. However, one received (them),

parva quidem stipulis et canna tecta palustri

a small (one) it is true, covered with stalks and marshy reeds.   

sed pia Baucis anus parilique aetate Philemon

But the dutiful old woman Baucis and Philemon of similar age

illa sunt annis iuncti iuvenalibus, illa

were united in their young years in that cottage,

consenuere casa paupertatemque fatendo

grew old in that cottage and, by acknowledging their poverty

effecere levem nec iniquia mente ferendo

and by bearing it with a not unequal mind, they made it unimportant.

nec refert, dominos illic famulosne requiras:

And it does not matter whether you look for masters or servants there,

tota domus duo sunt, idem parentque iubentque

the two are the whole household, the same (people) obey and give orders.

ergo ubi caelicolae parvos tetigere penates

Therefore when the heaven dwellers arrived at the small house

submissoque humiles intrarunt vertice postes

and entered the lowly doorposts with lowered head,

membra senex posito iussit relevare sedili

the old man ordered (them) to relax their limbs on the couch set out,

quo superiniecit textum rude sedula Baucis

over which the busy Baucis placed a rough woven cloth.    

inde foco tepid cinerem dimovit et ignes

Then she separated the warm ash in the hearth and roused

suscitat hesternos foliisque et cortice sicco

the fires of yesterday, fed (them) with leaves and dry bark,

nutrit et ad flammas anima producit anili

brought forth the flames with the breath of an old woman

multifidasque faces ramaliaque arida tecto

and brought down torches split into many pieces and dry sticks from the roof,

detulit et minuit parvoque admovit aeno

made them smaller and applied them to a small bronze pot.         

quodque suus coniunx riguo conlegerat horto

And she stripped a cabbage of its leaves, which her husband had gathered

truncat holus foliis; furca levat illa bicorni

from the well watered garden; with a two-pronged fork he lifted

sordida terga suis nigro pendentia tigno

the sooty back of a pig hanging on a black beamse

servatoque diu resecat de tergore partem

and cut off a thin slice from the long-preserved back

exiguam sectamque domat ferventibus undis

and, having cut it up, softened it in boiling waters.