Secunda Fabula De Minimo - Second Story About Minimus

NOW WITH A TRANSLATION!

(Minimus et mures amici ad fruticem veniunt.   mures circumspectant. Mures caseum cupiunt.)  Minimus and (his) mice friends come to a shrub.   The mice look around.  The mice long for cheese.

 unus mus:  Minime, haec non est silva parva!  est frutex!

                    Minimus, this is not a small forest!  It is a shrub!

 (mures sunt confundati…)  The mice are confused.

 Minimus:    nescio, sed intus caseus est.

                    I don't know (about this), but there is cheese inside.

 unus mus:  scisne certo, nam nescis certo de silva! 

                    Do you know for certain, for you don't know for certain about the forest. (Loosely: "...for you are not certain about the forest.")

 (mures sunt anxii…)   The mice are anxious.

 Minimus:    scio certo de caseo et...

                    I know for sure about the cheese and...

 unus mus:  quid?  quid est in frutice?

                    What?  What is in the shrub?

 (subito ingens feles ex frutice dirumpit!  mures amici sunt perterriti.)

Suddenly a huge cat bursts forth from the bush! The mice friends are terrified.

 mures:        MONSTRUM EST!  monstrum solum oculum habet!

                    It is a MONSTER!   The monster has only one eye!

 Minimus:    currite!  amici, currite!

                    Run!  Friends, run!

 (mures currunt sed Minimus ad terram cadit.  feles pedem in Minimo ponit.)

 The mice run but Minimus falls to the ground.  The cat places a paw on Minimus.

 mures:        Minimus! monstrum Minimum capit!

                    Minimus! The Monster is seizing Minimus!

 unus mus: currite!  currite, mures!  nolite curare Minimum!

                    Run!  Run, mice!  Don´t worry about Minimus!

 (mures exiunt.  Minimus felem spectat.  feles Minimum spectat.)

The mice leave.  Minimus looks at the cat.  The cat look at Minimus.

 Minimus:    furcifer!  pestis! unoculum monstrum!  vexa aliquem ingentiorem quam me!

                    Scoundrel!  Pest!  One-eyed monster!  Bother someone bigger than I...

 feles (Monstrum):   salve, mus!

                    Hello, mouse!

 Minimus:    quid dixitisti? ... 

                    What did you say? ....

TO BE CONTINUED….

 

WORDS TO HELP

 

veniunt     -        (they)  come                                                               

fruticem    -        bush, shrub (object form)

circumspectant-        (they) look around                       

cupiunt     -        (they) long for, desire

haec           -        this

silva           -        forest

frutex        -        bush, shrub  (subject form)

confundati         -        bewildered, confused                 

nescio       -        I didn’t know [about this]  

intus           -        inside

scisne?     -        Do you know...?  (“ne” makes “scis” a question.)

certo                    -        for certain

nam           -        for, because

nescis       -        You do not know…

de               -        about

scio           -        I know

frutice       -        bush, shrub

subito        -        suddenly

dirumpit    -        bursts forth

ex               -        from, out of

perterriti   -        terrified

currite       -        run!

currunt     -        (they) run

sed            -        but

cadit          -        falls (he)

terram       -        ground

ponit                   -        places, puts (he)

pedem       -        paw, foot

in Minimo -        on Minimus

capit          -        seizes (it, he)

nolite curare -   don’t worry about

furcifer      -        scoundrel

pestis        -        pest

unoculum -        one-eyed

vexa          -        go bother…

aliquem ingentiorem    -   someone bigger

quam         -        than

me              -        I

                                                                                 

 

WORDS TO KNOW

 

ad               -        to, toward

unus                    -        one

mus            -        mouse

non            -        not, no

parva         -        small

est              -        is (it, he, she)

caseo        -        cheese

quid?         -        what?

in                -        in

ingens       -        huge

feles          -        cat

monstrum          -        monster

habet         -        has (it)

solum        -        only one

oculum     -        eye

exiunt        -        leave, exit (they)

spectat      -        looks at (he, it)

salve                   -        hello (to one)

quid dixisti         -        what did you say?

 

 

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