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Barlow 31. DE TIGRIDE ET VULPE
*Not included in the Bolchazy-Carducci book.*
Parallels: For parallel versions, see Perry 340.
Latin Text:
Venator iaculis agitabat feras. Tigris iubet omnes feras absistere, inquiens, sese unam bellum confecturam. Pergit Venator iaculari; Tigris oppido sauciatur. Fugientem telumque dentibus extrahentem percontatur Vulpes, Quisnam potentem Beluam tam valde vulnerasset? Respondet Tigris se authorem vulneris ignorare; verum ex vulneris magnitudine capere se coniecturam, aliquem fuisse inter viros venatorem.
Here is a segmented version to help you see the grammatical patterns:
Venator
iaculis agitabat feras.
Tigris iubet
omnes feras absistere,
inquiens,
sese unam
bellum confecturam.
Pergit Venator iaculari;
Tigris oppido sauciatur.
Fugientem
telumque dentibus extrahentem
percontatur Vulpes,
Quisnam
potentem Beluam
tam valde vulnerasset?
Respondet Tigris
se
authorem vulneris ignorare;
verum
ex vulneris magnitudine
capere se coniecturam,
aliquem fuisse inter viros
venatorem.
Translation: The hunter was harrassing the wild beasts with his darts. The tiger ordered all the beasts to be calm, saying that she alone would conduct the war. The hunter carried on with his shooting; the tiger was wounded, of course. As the tiger fled and was pulling out the weapon with her teeth, the fox asked who had so seriously wounded such the mighty beast? The tiger answered that she did not know the author of the wound, but clearly from the size of the wound the tiger had concluded that it was some hunter of the human kind.
[This translation is meant as a help in understanding the story, not as a "crib" for the Latin. I have not hesitated to change the syntax to make it flow more smoothly in English, altering the verb tense consistently to narrative past tense, etc.]
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