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secundum lītus Americae Ulteriōris nāvigāret, urbēs illīus regiōnis adīret multās, incolāsque magnam vim aurī argentīque trādere cogeret.

Līmae^[1] duodecim nāvigia in portū ad ancoram cōnsistēbant; quae cum ille spoliāret, certior factus aliam nāvem gazā onustam haud procul abesse, praedā ē duodecim nāvigiīs cōnfestim in suum^[2] receptā, ē portū statim solvit^[3], summāque celeritāte coepit īnsequī; dīvitiās^[4] enim etiam maiōrēs sē iam captūrum spērābat.

Mox in cōnspectū erat nāvis fugiēns^[5]; quae nūllō modō ēvādere potuit, cum^[6] Britannī celeritāte^[7] tantopere^[8] superābant. Nāve trāditā, dīvitiae^[9] maximae intus repertae sunt; quīn etiam gubernātor^[10] ipse^[11] duo pōcula argentea habuisse dīcitur. Quae cum praefectus vīdisset, gubernātōrī, “Duo pōcula tū habēs,” inquit; “alterum^[12] mihi dandum est.” Tum gubernātor miser, quī omnia trādenda^[13] plānē^[14] intellegēbat, invītus praefectō^[15] in manūs pōcula trādidit ambō.

LESSON 71

A Roman Vandal

Quibus rēbus admoneor ut dē pessimīs facinoribus Verris, hominis^[16] plānē^[17] scelerātī, pauca^[18] nunc dīcam. Nam ille,

1. Līmae: a town name; what case?.
2. suum: sc. nāvigium.
3. solvit: cf. nāvem solvērunt, p. 61, l. 9.
4. dīvitiās: dīvitiae, -ārum: f., treasures.
5. fugiēns: cf. fugientēs, p. 69, l. 24.
6. cum: causal.
7. celeritāte: for syntax, cf. animīs, p. 37, l. 20.
8. tantopere: cf. p. 73, l. 7.
9. dīvitiae: cf. l. 8.
10. gubernātor: cf. gubernāculum.
11. ipse: even.
12. alterum: one (of the two).
13. trādenda: sc. esse.
14. plānē: adv., full well.
15. praefectō: dat. case; translate as if a genitive.
16. hominis: in apposition with Verris.
17. plānē: adv., cf. the rendering in the note on l. 16, utterly.
18. pauca: note the gender.