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Monday, February 9, 2009

Echo and Handsome Narcissus

Narcissus was a pretty boy. Many girls love him; He loved none out of that. If alone, he loves himself and life, and drives into the forest. For a long time, the nymph Echo has loved Narcissus, but nevertheless he was able to talk to his friends; he is able to give back one other final word. If Narcissus calls, "Are you here?", Echo calls , "Here." If that man "Where are you?"Come!", he calls, that woman "Come!", calls. But Narcissus did not come from himself, and Echo, therefore, did not live for a long time. He wholly lost his body; however we now hear his voice also.

Meanwhile, Narcissus sees his image in a pool of water and is not able to move away his eyes. He was overcome by great love for himself. Time flies; Narcissus remains there. They were not able to come upon his friend. Before himself in the pool of water, where that man exists, now is a pretty flower. This name is perpetual in Narcissus.

Humans ought not love themselves too much.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you. You really are the BEST.

Anonymous said...

This translation is really bad. There's a lot of grammar mistakes, and severael sentences don't make sense.

Anonymous said...

shut the heck up "anonymus #2"!!! the translation is great. it's translated literally from 38 stories.

Anonymous said...

To be honest, this isn't all that great...

Anonymous said...

This is great!!! Yay!! Helped alot with my Latin II homework when I didn't understand some of it!!

Anonymous said...

Yeah, this translation is ok but it is missing a ton of the relexive pronouns and intensive pronouns.

Anonymous said...

There are a LOT of errors in this translation. Don't rely on this to help with homework - it will mislead you. The author should especially review the perfect active system for verbs, as well as pronouns.

Henricus said...

a few grammar errors here and there, but over all a good translation of the story.

Anonymous said...

although I am completely aware of the many latin errors... WHO CARES! MY TEACHER GRADES ON COMPLETION!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Wait wow this translation is actual shit, i really hope you failed your latin course if this is the kind of crap you were turning in.

Anonymous said...

really bad translation did it myself and had my Latin teacher look at this and she laughed when she looked at it

Anonymous said...

there's room for improvement. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Anonymous said...

this translation isn't too well and quite confusing . and yes, I know I'm late.