Section 11 Livy: Hannibal Crosses the Alps Translation Flashcards
quadriduum circa rupem consumptum, iumentis prope fame absumptis;
Four days were spent over the rock, and the baggage animals nearly starved to death;
nuda enim fere cacumina sunt et, si quid est pabuli, obruunt nives.
for the peaks were virtually bare of vegetation and, if there was any fodder, it was buried beneath the snow.
inferiora valles apricos quosdam colles habent rivosque prope silvas et iam humano cultu digniora loca.
The lands below had sunny valleys, some hills, as well as streams running near woos - in fact locations all much more appropriate for human habitation.
ibi iumenta in pabulum missa et quies muniendo fessis hominibus data.
Here the animals were allowed to graze and time off was granted to the men, who were tired from their road building.
triduo inde ad planum descensum et iam locis mollioribus et accolarum ingeniis.
After three days they went down to the open plain to where both the regions and the nature of the inhabitants were gentler.
hoc maxime modo in Italiam perventum est quinto mense a Carthagine Nova,
By and large they reached Italy by these means five months after leaving New Carthage,
ut quidam auctores sunt, quinto decimo die Alpibus superatis
according to some writers - the conquest of the Alps having taken fifteen days.
Four days were spent over the rock, and the baggage animals nearly starved to death;
quadriduum circa rupem consumptum, iumentis prope fame absumptis;
for the peaks were virtually bare of vegetation and, if there was any fodder, it was buried beneath the snow.
nuda enim fere cacumina sunt et, si quid est pabuli, obruunt nives.
The lands below had sunny valleys, some hills, as well as streams running near woos - in fact locations all much more appropriate for human habitation.
inferiora valles apricos quosdam colles habent rivosque prope silvas et iam humano cultu digniora loca.
Here the animals were allowed to graze and time off was granted to the men, who were tired from their road building.
ibi iumenta in pabulum missa et quies muniendo fessis hominibus data.
After three days they went down to the open plain to where both the regions and the nature of the inhabitants were gentler.
triduo inde ad planum descensum et iam locis mollioribus et accolarum ingeniis.
By and large they reached Italy by these means five months after leaving New Carthage,
hoc maxime modo in Italiam perventum est quinto mense a Carthagine Nova,
according to some writers - the conquest of the Alps having taken fifteen days.
ut quidam auctores sunt, quinto decimo die Alpibus superatis
