Episode 9.3: Rēs Pūblica

 

per iānuam apertam fēminam vidēbant. sedēbat, pallida sed quiēta. in mēnsā prope eam pūgiō iacēbat. fēmina pūgiōnem spectābat. nōn dubitābat: cōnsilium iam cēpit.

 

in tablīnō quattuor virī erant, quī inter sē vōce parvā et celerī loquēbantur. virī fēminam nōn vidēbant; fēmina virōs nōn vidēbat.

 

haec erat Lūcrētia, uxor Collātīnī. Sextus Tarquiniusiniūriam gravem fēcit. Lūcrētia in culpā nōn erat, et hoc bene sciēbat; sed pudor Rōmānus gravis erat.

 

Recentiī rem intellēxērunt. servī erant: clāmāre nōn poterant, fēminam nōbilem tangere nōn poterant. et āēr ipse, gravis, eōs tenēbat; sē movēre vix poterant. hanc rem mūtāre nōn poterant: ita Rōmānī hanc fābulam semper nārrābant.

 

sed ūnum facere poterant: locum suum ēligere.

 


 Recentiī quō eunt?

 

Option A: Octāviāna prope Lūcrētiam manēre vult.

 

Option B: Bellātor ad virōs accēdere vult.

 

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