40. A Miraculous Hail-storm (primer) 40. A Miraculous Hail-storm (primer) 40\. Uma tempestade de granizo milagrosa (cartilha)

tum Hercules constituit compellere boves Then Hercules said, and made him to compel the oxen,

Then Hercules decided to drive the cattle

per Hispaniam et Liguriam ; Spain and Liguria;

through Spain and Liguria ;

postquam igitur omnia parata sunt, So, after all the preparations are

After therefore everything were prepared,

transportavit boves ex insula ad continentem.

he carried over the oxen from the island to the mainland.

Ligures autem, bellicosissima gens , Ligures are warlike nation;

Now the Ligurians, a most warlike people,

dum ille facit iter per fines eorum, while it is He who makes a journey through the borders of their own,

while he is making journey through the territories of them,

coegerunt magnas copias

brought together large forces

atque prohibebant eum progredi longius . and there, and prevented him from going any further.

and were preventing him[=trying to prevent] to advance farther .

Hercules habebat magnam difficultatem

Hercules had great difficulty,

nam barbari stabant in superioribus locis

for the barbarians were standing in higher places

et coniciebant saxa  tela-que in eum. throwing rocks and weapons-that to him.

and were throwing rocks and-missiles into him .

ille quidem deposuerat paene omnem spem salutis, He, however, had put away almost all hope of salvation,

He indeed had laid aside almost all hope of safety,

sed opportunissimo tempore But the appropriate time

but at a most opportune time

Iuppiter demisit e caelo. Jupiter down from the sky. imbrem ingentium lapidum.

Jupiter sent down from the sky a shower of enormous stones.

hi ceciderunt tanta vi ut they fell down with such force that

These fell with such great force that

occiderint magnum numerum Ligurum ; should kill him, a large number of the Ligurians;

they killed a great number of Ligurians ;

Hercules tamen ipse Let me tell you, however, himself

However Hercules himself

( quod consuevit accidere in talibus rebus)

( what was accustomed to happen in such things)

cepit nihil incommodi .

received nothing of harm .