Vēnībunt[1] servī, supellex, fundī, aedēs; omnia vēnībunt praesentī pecūniā.[2] Vēnībit uxor quoque, sī quis ēmptor vēnerit.’”
“Hominem īnfēlīcem!” inquit Anna. “Vērī simile[3] est eī esse uxōrem procācem. Sī ita rēs sē habet, crēdō eum omnia vēndere velle, ut aliquō[4] exsulātum[5] abeat.”
Iam autem tempus cēnae erat. Itaque omnēs libenter ad tēcta sē recēpērunt, cum interim Pūblius saepius sēcum:[6] “Ab ōvō usque ad māla.”[7]
“Quid tēcum totiēns loqueris, Pūblī?” inquit Sextus.
“Dīcō mē tam male ēsurīre,” inquit Pūblius, “ut etiam serpentium ōva edere possim.”
“Vāh!” inquit Cornēlia. “Cūr puerī tam foeda semper comminīscuntur?[8] Tālia nōn diūtius audiam.” Quae cum dīxisset, celeriter intrō praecucurrit.[9]
Interim pater, Brundisiō reversus, sēcum addūxerat quendam L. Torquātum, familiārem veterem, quī forte in oppidō sē obtulerat; cui, etsī in Siciliam properābat, Cornēlius facile persuāserat ut ūnam noctem morārī vellet, quō melius amīcitia[10] prīstina renovārētur.
- ↑ Vēnībunt: see vēneō.
- ↑ praesentī pecūniā, for cash.
- ↑ Vērī simile est, impers. phrase, it is probable.
- ↑ aliquō: cf. quō, eō, and eōdem.
- ↑ exsulātum: supine.
- ↑ saepius sēcum: supply a verb of saving; saepius, again and again, very often (absolute use of the comparative, to indicate a high degree).
- ↑ Ab ōvō, etc.: i.e., from the first course to the last, Note the ā of māla.
- ↑ comminīscor, -minīscī, -mentus sum, tr., think up, imagine.
- ↑ praecurrō -currere, -cucurrī, -cursus, tr. and intr., run ahead.
- ↑ amīcitia, -ae, f., friendship.
