Echo And Narcissus Section 1

Question 1

Aspicit hunc trepidos agitantem in retia cervos vocalis nymphe, quae nec reticere loquenti nec prius ipsa loqui didicit, resonabilis Echo.

Answer 1

As this man was chasing the frightened deer into his nets, a talkative nymph noticed him, the answering echo, who has not yet learned how to keep quiet when someone is speaking nor to speak herself first.

Question 2

Corpus adhuc Echo, non vox, erat; et tamen usum garrula non alium, quam nunc habet, oris habebat reddere de multis ut verba novissima posset.

Answer 2

Up until now Echo was a body, not just a voice, and although a chatterbox she enjoyed no more power of speech than she does now, she could only repeat the last words of the many she heard.

Question 3

Ergo ubi Narcissum per devia rura vagantem vidit et incaluit, sequitur vestigia furtim, quoque magis sequitur, flamma propiore calescit

Answer 3

Therefore when she saw Narcissus wandering through the remote countryside and fell in love with him, she followed his footsteps secretly, and the more she followed, the more the flame of passion burned within her

Question 4

Non aliter quam cum summis circumlita taedis admotas rapiunt vivacia sulphura flammas

Answer 4

Not differently than when the quick to ignite sulphur smeared around on the tips of torches, seizes flames that have been brought close.