Lesson 5.7 Ovid

ICARUS FALLING

Try the next piece:

et iam Iunonia laeva
parte Samos (fuerant Delosque Parosque relictae
dextra Lebinthos erat fecundaque melle Calymne,
cum puer audaci coepit gaudere volatu
deseruitque ducem caelique cupidine tractus
altius egit iter.

The commonest ways for Latin to say “and” are with the word et and the suffix -que. Samos Delosque Parosque means the same as Samos et Delos et Paros. In my prose version I’ve favoured et.

et iam Iunonia Samos erat laeva parte, Lebinthos et Calymne (fecunda melle) erat dextra. Delos et Paros fuerant relictae. Puer coepit gaudere audaci volatu. Deseruit ducem. Tractus cupidine caeli, egit iter altius.

Not much of this is familiar from our previous reading, but if we approach it systematically it will start to come clear.