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Lesson
Piscis habet pinnas, quibus natat; et branchias, quibus respirat et spinas loco ossium: praeterea, mas lactes, foemina ova.
Quidam habent squamas, ut carpio, lucius, or lupus.
Alii sunt glabri, ut anguilla, mustela, accipenser (sturio) mucronatus, crescit ultra longitudinem viri.
Silurus, bucculentus, major illo est: sed maximus antaseus (huso).
Apuoe, natantes gratatim, sunt minutissimae.
Alli hujus generis sunt perca, alburnus, mullus, (barbus) thymallus, trutta, gobius, tinca.
Cancer, tegitur crusta, habetque chelas et graditur porro et retro. Hirudo, sugit sanguinem.
Exposition
1. Piscis habet pinnas, quibus natat; et branchias, quibus respirat et spinas loco ossium: praeterea, mas lactes, foemina ova.
- Piscis: “fish”
- habet: “has”
- pinnas: “fins”
- quibus: “with which” or “by which”
- natat: “swims”
- branchias: “gills”
- respirat: “breathes” or “takes a breath”
- spinas: “prickles”
- loco: “instead of”
- ossium: “bones”
- praetera: besires
- mas: “male”
- lactes: “(a) milt”
- foemina: “female”
- ova: “(a) row”
Translation: A fish has fins with which it swims, and gills by which it breathes, and prickles instead of bones; besides the male has a milt and the female has a row.
2. Quidam habent squamas, ut carpio, lucius, or lupus.
- quidam: “some”
- habent: “have”
- squamas: “scales”
- carpio: “(the) carp”
- lucius: “(the) luce”
- lupus: “pike”
Translation: Some have scales, as the carp, the luce or pike.
3 Alii sunt glabri, ut anguilla, mustela. Accipenser (sturio) mucronatus, crescit ultra longitudinem viri.
- alii: “some”
- glabri: “sleek”
- anguilla: “(the) eel”
- mustela: “(the) lamprey”
- accipenser (sturio): “(the) sturgeon”
- mucronatus: “sharp snout”
- crescit: “grows”
- ultra: “beyond”
- longiutudinem: “(the) length”
- viri: “of (a) man”
Translation: Some are sleek, such as the eel and the lamprey. The sturgeon, having a sharp snout, grows beyond the length of a man.
4 Silurus, bucculentus, major illo est: sed maximus antaseus (huso).
- silurus: “(the) sheath-fish”
- bucculentus: “having wide cheeks”
- major: “bigger”
- illo: “he”
- est: “is”
- sed: “but”
- maxiumus: “(the) greatest”
- antaseus (huso): “huson”
Translation: The sheath-fish, having wide cheeks, is bigger than he: but the greatest is the huson.
5 Apuoe, natantes gratatim, sunt minutissimae.
- apuoe: “minews”
- natantes: “swimming”
- gregatim: “by (the) shoals”
- minutissimae: “least”
Translation: Minews, swimming by the shoals, are the least.
6 Alli hujus generis sunt perca, alburnus, mullus, (barbus) thymallus, trutta, gobius, tinca.
- alli: “others”
- hujus: “this”
- generis: “kind”
- perca:
- alburnus
- mullus
- barbus
- thymallus
- trutta
- gobius
- tinca
Translation: B
7 Cancer, tegitur crusta, habetque chelas et graditur porro et retro. Hirudo, sugit sanguinem.
- cancer
- tegitur
- crusta
- habetques
- chelas
- graditur
- porro
- retro
- hirudo
- sugit
- sangiunem
Translation: Ma
Translation
A fish has fins with which it swims, and gills by which it breathes, and prickles instead of bones; besides the male has a milt and the female has a row. Some have scales, as the carp, the luce or pike.
