THE STORY OF ECHO AND NARCISSUS
Part 1 Translation:
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LATIN TEXT
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TRANSLATION
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Zeus
saepe visitabat montes ubi adludiabat cum nymphis (nomine Oreades) in gelidis
cataractis et in viridibus pratis.
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Zeus
often used to visit the mountains where he used to frolic with nymphs (named
Oreads) in icy waterfalls and green meadows
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Hera,
uxor Iovis, erat invidiosissima et saepe temptabat comperire suum maritum cum
nymphis.
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Hera,
wife of Zeus, was very jealous and often used to attempt to discover her
husband with the nymphs.
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dulcis
nympha nomine Echo erat custos pro Iove et , ubi Hera appropinquabat,
currebat ad deam et habebat colloquium cum ea dum Zeus et nymphae effugiunt.
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A
sweet nymph named Echo was a guard for Zeus and, when Hera used to approach, she
would run to the goddess and have a conversation with her while Zeus and the
nymphs escape.
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tandem
Hera intellegebat nympham decipere deam cum colloquio et devovit nympham ut
postea
Echo posset reiterare modo ultima verba aliorum hominum.
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Finally
Hera understood that the nymph was deceiving the goddess with the
conversation and cursed the nymph so that afterwards she could repeat only
the last words of other people.
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