| Contigit quod quidam paterfamilias habuit XII oves. |
contigit quod: "it happened that" paterfamilias: masculine nominative singular (pater - familias, with familias being an archaic form of the feminine genitive singular) |
| how many sheep does the landlord own? | |
| Voluit peregrinari et commendavit oves suas Ysemgrino, id est lupo, compatri suo. |
peregrinari: s.v. peregrinor (deponent verb) compatri: s.v. compater (this is where we get words like the Spanish compadre) |
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why does he entrust the sheep to the wolf? |
| Et compater iuravit quod bene conservaret eas. Profectus est statim. |
quod...conservaret: medieval equivalent of purpose clause with ut profectus est statim (paterfamilias): s.v. proficiscor |
| what did the wolf promise to do? | |
| Ysemgrinus interim cogitavit de ovibus et uno die comedit de una, altera die de alia, ita quod vix tres invenit paterfamilias, quando reversus est. |
vix: adverb paterfamilias: masculine nominative singular |
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how many sheep were left when the man got home? |
| Querebat a compatre quid factum fuerit de aliis ovibus. |
querebat = quaerebat |
| what did the man ask the wolf? | |
| Respondit Ysemgrinus quod mors ex temperalitate venit super eas. |
ex temperalitate: "out of time, untimely, unexpected" |
| what did the wolf say? | |
| Et dixit paterfamilias: Da mihi pelles; et inventa sunt vestigia dencium lupi. |
dencium = dentium (s.v. dens) |
| how did the man discover what had happened? | |
| Et ait paterfamilias: Reus es mortis; et fecit lupum suspendi. |
suspendi: present passive infinitive |
| what happened to the wolf in the end? |
