moriēbantur[1]. Quō modō saepe factum est ut[2] vīvī, vinculīs retentī, inter mortuōs iacēre cōgerentur, dōnec postērō diē nautae solverent mortuōs corporaque in mare abicerent[3].
Illīs temporibus, cum servī plūrimī ex Āfricā in terrās dīversās trānsportārentur, saepe in marī[4] coniūrātiōnem inter sē nautae fēcērunt, dominōque nāvis aut coniectō in vincula aut interfectō, ducem novum ipsī dēligēbant; quō modō pīrātae[5] factī secundum lītus Āfricae ultrō citrōque nāvigābant et nāvēs[6] gentium spoliābant omnium.
Quōrum ē[7] numerō quīdam in portum ōlim vectī longinquum, ubi in lītore collocāta erant castra parva Britannica, lēgātum tēla aurumque ē castrīs ad sē mittere summā superbia iussērunt. Ille vērō, vir maximae cōnstantiae, aurum[8] respondit sē nōn datūrum esse, sed tēla libenter[9] missūrum, sī eōrum nāvis propius accessisset[10].
Tum pīrātae īrā commōtī[11] castra ācerrimē adortī sunt, ac lēgātus Britannicus, postquam tēla dēfēcērunt ē castrīs sē recipere coāctus, postrēmō ab hostibus captus est; quī eum cum custōdibus[12] cōnfēstim ad ducem[13] misērunt. Iste scīlicet
- ↑ moriēbantur: cf. rapiēbant, p. 7, l. 17.
- ↑ factum est ut: cf. p. 74, l. 15.
- ↑ solverent . . . abicerent: translate both the subjunctives “should.”.
- ↑ marī: n, the high seas.
- ↑ pīrātae: m, predicate nom..
- ↑ nāvēs: f, commerce.
- ↑ ē: cf..
- ↑ aurum: n, do not confuse aurum with auris.
- ↑ libenter: cf. the note on p. 93, l. 9.
- ↑ accessisset: cf. esset perruptus, p. 107, l. 3.
- ↑ īrā commōtī: freely, filled with wrath.
- ↑ cum custōdibus: i.e. under guard.
- ↑ ducem: m, (their) chief.
