sērō[1] adferrētur, cōnstituērunt, sī possent, Britannōs ipsī dēterrēre.
Post domum[2], quae in prōmunturiō posita erat[3], silva erat parva. Itaque līberī, cum ad aedēs cucurrissent, armīs cōnfēstim arreptīs, portā[4] posticā[5] in silvam clam ēgressī sunt; tum autem palam ē silvā in aedēs cum armīs properāvērunt. Quod idem[6] cum saepius[7] fēcissent, Britannī, quī cōnspiciēbant procul nec quicquam[8] plānē vidēre poterant, manum magnam in aedēs convēnisse ratī, pedetemptim tamen prōgredī persevērāvērunt: dum vērō praeter prōmunturium nāvigant, subitō alter ex[9] līberīs inmīsit tēlum ac gubernātōrem graviter vulnerāvit; quī cum prōlapsus gubernācula ē manibus dīmīsisset, nāvis ē cursū flūmine secundō[10] ferrī coepta est[11]. Quam ob rem Britannī, sē sīc omnīs interficī posse arbitrātī, animō minimē aequō sē recēpērunt ad oppidum, unde nūper prōfectī erant.
Quae rēs memorābilis mē admonet dē facinore similī sed maiōre, quod Rōmae[12] antīquitus ab Horātiō quōdam factum esse trāditur. Cum enim bellum ā rēge Porsinnā esset Rōmānīs indictum, Iāniculum[13] impetū repentinō captum est
- ↑ sērō: adv., in this context, too late, late.
- ↑ domum: f, (their) home.
- ↑ posita erat: had been built.
- ↑ portā: f, syntax, cf. sēmitā, p. 103, l. 17, door.
- ↑ posticā: posticus, -a, -um: back.
- ↑ idem: note the gender, and cf. p. 103, l. 12.
- ↑ saepius: what use of the compar.?, over and over again.
- ↑ quicquam: n, neut. of quisquam (cf. p. 2, l. 11).
- ↑ alter ex: one of (the two).
- ↑ secundō: cf. p. 87, l. 18.
- ↑ coepta est: cf. the note on coeptus est, p. 66, l. 12.
- ↑ Rōmae: f, note that this is a town name.
- ↑ Iāniculum: n, a hill on the west bank of the Tiber, opposite Rome.
