gnum pollicitus est, pōculaque brevī domum laetus reportāvit; comitēs enim praetōris, cum ille ē somnō experrēctus esset[1], audācī mendāciō[2] ūsī[3] nōn dubitāvērunt cōnfīrmāre pōcula sibi nōn digna[4] vidērī, quae in eius mēnsā[5] pōnerentur.
Indī Americānī nōn sōlum cum colōnīs saepe bellum gessērunt, sed inter sē quoque pugnāre cōnsuēvērant ācerrimē. Sīcut in Britanniā Novā rēx quīdam, nōmine Miantōnimō, diū per īnsidiās[6] cōnātus est interficere Uncam, rēgem fīnitimum, ut ipse sōlus duārum[7] nātiōnum rēgnum obtinēret; cum autem ista cōnsilia eum fefellissent[8] omnia, subitō magnō cum exercitū in vīcīnī fīnēs quam celerrimē contendit: Uncās[9] vērō, dē eius adventū ab explōrātōribus certior factus, cōpiās coēgerat et sine morā ad pugnam profectus est.
Ubi aciēs duae īnstrūctae sunt, Uncās, paulum ante suōs prōgressus, sē velle[10] dīxit sōlum cum Miantōnimōne sōlō dīmicāre, ut sine detrimentō cēterōrum[11] rēs dīiūdicārī[12] posset. Quod[13] cum ille[14] recūsāret, Uncās cōnsultō in terram prōlapsus est, eiusque mīlitēs, clāmōre sublātō, super ducem
- ↑ experrēctus esset: expergīscor, 3, -perrēctus sum: wake up.
- ↑ mendāciō: mendācium, -ī: n., lie.
- ↑ ūsī: translate as if a present.
- ↑ digna . . . quae: with subjunct., worthy to, dignus, -a, -um.
- ↑ mēnsā: mēnsa, -ae: f., table.
- ↑ īnsidiās: see the Vocab..
- ↑ duārum: the two.
- ↑ fefellissent: from fallō.
- ↑ Uncās: for the declension, cf. the note on Cercās, p. 23, l. 4.
- ↑ velle: pred. adj. with dīmicāre; what other part of speech has the same form? (cf. l. 5), was willing.
- ↑ cēterōrum: we would say “to the others”.
- ↑ dīiūdicārī: dīiūdicō, 1: decide, or settle.
- ↑ Quod: this (proposal).
- ↑ ille: Miantōnimō.
