tardet ingenuus pudor.
Quem tamen magis audiēns, 80
flet quod īre necesse est.
Flēre dēsine. Nōn tibi Au-
runculēia perīculum est,
nē qua fēmina pulcrior
clārum ab Ōceanō diem 85
vīderit venientem.
Tālis in variō solet
dīvitis dominī hortulō
stāre flōs hyacinthinus.
Sed morāris, abit diēs. 90
Prōdeās nova nūpta.
Prōdeās nova nūpta, sī
iam vidētur, et audiās
nostra verba. Vidēn? Facēs
aureās quatiunt comās: 95
prōdeās nova nūpta.
vocabulary
tardō tardāre tardāvī tardātus: delay, slow
ingenuus –a –um: native, natural; befitting a free-born person, generous, frank; (m. or f. subst.) a freeborn person
quod: because, the fact that
Aurunculeia –ae f.: female name
Ōceanus –ī m.: Oceanus, god of the sea, husband of Tethys 85
hortulus –ī m.: garden (dim. of hortus)
hyacinthinus –a –um: of the hyacinth; hyacinth-colored
prōdeō prōdīre prōdiī prōditum: come or go forward; advance
nupta –ae f.: wife