Mors ad Senem advenit, dicens,
"Te e vita nunc rapio."
Senex rogat,
"O Mors, paululum differ!
Testamentum condere debeo,
et cetera necessaria praeparare
ad tantum iter."
Mors respondet,
"Cur non hactenus praeparasti,
toties a me admonitus?"
Senex clamat,
"Sed te numquam vidi!"
Mors respondet,
"Mortalitatis tuae te admonebam
cum quotidie rapiebam
non modo aequales tuos,
quorum nulli fere iam restant,
verum etiam iuvenes, pueros, infantes.
Dicebam
me tibi propinquam esse,
cum sentiebas oculos hebescere,
auditum ceterosque sensus deficere,
et corpus ingravescere in dies.
Et te admonitum negas?
Quare ulterius differendum non est."
This story is based on 818. Mors et Senex.
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mors - death
et - and
senex - old man
ad - to, towards
advenio - come, arrive
dico - say
tu - you
e - from, out of
vita - life
nunc - now
rapio - grab, snatch
rogo - ask
O - o! oh!
paululum - a little bit
differo - postpone, put off
testamentum - will, testament
condo - make, compose
ceterus - other, rest
necessarius - necessary
praeparo - prepare, get ready
tantus - so great, such
iter - journey
respondeo - answer, reply
cur - why
non - not, no
hactenus - so far, till now
toties - so many times
a - by, from
admoneo - warn, advise
clamo -shout
sed - tu
numquam - never
video - see
mortalitas - mortality
tuus - your, yours
cum - when
quotidie - daily, every day
non modo - not only
aequalis - equal, contemporary
qui - who, which, that
nullus - none, not any
fere - practically, almost
iam - already, now
resto - remain
verum - truly
etiam - also
iuvenis - youth, young person
puer - boy
infans - infant, baby
ego - I
propinquus - nearby
sum - be, exist
sentio - sense, be aware
oculus - eye
hebesco - grow feeble
auditus - hearing, sense of hearing
-que - and
sensus - sense, awareness
deficio - fail
corpus - body
ingravesco - grow heavy, sluggish
in - in, into
dies - day
nego - deny, say that not
quare - for that reason, therefore
ulterius - further, farther
M0818 (not in Perry)
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