42. Cacus Steals the Oxen (primer) 42\. Caco rouba os bois (cartilha)

brevi tempore venit ad flumen Tiberim. in a short time, it came to the river, the Tiber.

In a short time he came to the river Tiber.

tum tamen in eo loco erat nulla urbs,

Then however in that place was not any city,

Roma enim nondum condita erat .

for Rome not yet had been founded .

Hercules fessus itinere constituit morari ibi paucos dies, Let me tell you, wearied with his journey, and made him determined to stay there for a few days,

Hercules, worn out by the journey, decided to delay there for a few days,

ut recrearet se ex laboribus . so that, to refresh himself from his labors of others.

so that he might refresh himself from his labours .

haud procul a valle ubi boves pascebantur

Not far from the valley where the oxen were feeding

erat spelunca the cave

there was a cave

in qua Cacus, horribile monstrum, tum habitabat.

in which Cacus, a horrible monster, then lived .

hic praebebat diram speciem, put on the appearance of this man 's fell,

This < man> showed a fearsome appearance, non modo quod erat ingenti magnitudine corporis,

not only because he was with enormous greatness of body,

sed quod exspirabat ignem ex ore. but that which is breathed fire from their mouths.

but because he breathed out fire from his mouth .

Cacus autem  acceperat famam de adventu Herculis ;

Now Cacus had received word about the arrival of Hercules ;

noctu igitur venit, et dum Hercules dormit, then did he come by night, and as long as Hercules, he has fallen asleep,

Therefore by night he came, and while Hercules is sleeping,

abripuit quattuor pulcherrimorum boum .

he snatched four of the most handsome oxen .

hos traxit in speluncam caudis,

These he dragged into his cave by their tails,

ne Hercules posset cognoscere e vestigiis……

so that not Hercules might be able to find out from their tracks

in quo loco celati essent .

in which place they had been hidden .