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created: 3/14/04 Elementary
Latin II Professor Ortwin Knorr
Reading Exercise/Test
Exercise
(LATIN 132)
Classical Studies Program
Email:
oknorrATwillamette.edu
Phone: x6029
Mailbox: 107 Eaton
Answer
Key to the Exercises GVE p. 270-71
Adapted medieval Latin: St. Columba subdues the Loch Ness Monster
Once upon a time, St. Columba stayed several days in the province
of the Picts and found it necessary to cross the Loch Ness. As soon
as he had come to the shore, he spotted some of the inhabitants
of this region who were burying a poor little man. A water monster
with great teeth, as the inhabitants themselves said, had bitten
this man a little earlier as he was swimming in the loch. When the
holy man heard this, he ordered one of his companions to swim to
the other shore and to bring the boat that was lying there back
to him. This companion, by the name Lugneus Mocumin, took off his
clothes without delay and hurled himself into the water, wearing
only his tunic.
The monster, however, that was hidden in the depths of the loch
noticed that the water above it was being disturbed, emerged suddenly,
and hurried to the man with loud roaring <and> an open mouth,
as he was swimming in the middle of the loch. Between Lugneus and
the monster was not more (space) than the length of a single pole.
Then, when the blessed man saw this, he raised his holy hand, while
the barbarians and the brothers were trembling with fear, and made
the sign of the cross in the air, saying to the monster, "Don't
advance further; don't touch the man but go away quickly!"
Then the monster indeed fled back swiftly at the command of the
holy man, while it was trembling. With great wonder, the brothers
praised God in the blessed man, and the barbarians made much of
the God of the Christians because of the miracle that they had seen
themselves.