Monday, January 17, 2011

003.01

Accipe nunc Danaum insidias, et crimine ab uno
Disce omnis.

Virgil. Aeneid, II., 65.

Now listen while my tongue declares
The tale you ask of Danaan snares,
And gather from a single charge
Their catalogue of crimes at large.
- (Conington.)

Accipe nunc Dana(ōr)um īnsidiās, et crīmine ab ūnō
Disce omnīs (omnēs).

accipiō, -ere, -cēpī, -ceptus, take, hear, grasp, accept, understand.
nunc, adv., now.
īnsidiae, -ārum, f., snare, trap, ambush, crafty device.

crīmen
, -inis, n., crime, offense.
ūnus, -a, -um (gen. -īus, dat. -ī), one.
discō, -ēre, didicī, -, learn, come to know.
omnis, -e, all, every, everyone, everything.

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