Episode 6.3: Stabiae and the Eruption

 

Stabiae erat oppidum parvum prope mare. ubi Recentiī advēnērunt, forum paene vacuum erat. cīvēs iam fūgerant: ad nāvēs, ad viās, ad loca quae tūtiōra esse spērābant. sōlī canēs per viās errābant. pumicēs in saxīs forī iacēbant.

 

Sextus inscrīptiōnem Herculānēnsem, quam sēcum portābat, explicāvit et in lapidēs forī spectāre coepit. oculīs per mūrōs et columnās cucurrit, verba mūrmūrāns.

 

deinde cōnstitit.

 

"ecce!" Sextus clāmāvit.

 

in ūnō lapide forī, sīgnum erat quod lūcēbat. lēniter, sīcut omnia quae ad Lapidem pertinēbant. trēs sagittae, deorsum spectantēs, sed ūnaquaeque in dīversam partem. sub sagittīs, litterae sine spatiīs:

 

INFOROSTABIAENECESSEESTVOBISHQUAERERE

 

Sextus frōntem contrāxit. deinde intellēxit: in forō Stabiae necesse est vōbīs quaerere.

 

"est īnsidia," Sextus quiētē dīxit. "Potentēs haec posuērunt ut hominēs ad sē attraherent. sed sī haec invēnimus, fortasse eōrum sēcrēta quoque invēnīmus."

 

sagittae trēs in dīversās partēs mōnstrābant. Recentiī ad trēs angulōs forī iērunt, et in ūnōquōque angulō lapidem invēnērunt, paene sub terrā celātum. Sextus prīmum ēvertit. in parte posteriōre, litterae incīsae erant.

 


 perge.

 

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