Translate into English:
In Aegyptō paucae bēstiae reperiuntur. Itaque omnēs sacrae habentur. Fēlēs canēsque coluntur. Mortuā fēle in quāvīs domō, omnēs aedium illārum incolae supercilia sōla rādunt: mortuō cane, tōtum rādunt corpus et caput. Mortuae fēlēs in sacrīs sepulcrīs, Būbastī in oppidō sepeliuntur. Canēs mortuōs in suō quisque oppidō sepeliunt. Mūrēs etiam, arāneōs, accipitrēs, ibēs, ichneumonēs, colunt.
Vocabulary
accipiter, acciptrī [2/m]: hawk
aedis, -is [3/f]: [i] (singular) temple; [ii] here: plural; aedēs, -ium: house, dwelling
arāneus, -ī [2/m]: spider
Būbastis, -is [3/f; Loc: Būbastī or Būbaste]: Bubastis, an ancient city in Egypt, the centre for the worship of the feline goddess Bastet and a principal location for mummified cats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubastis
ībis, ībidis [3/f]: ibis
ichneumōn, ichneumonis [3/m]: ichneumon, an Egyptian mongoose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_mongoose
rādō, -ere, rāsī, rāsus [3]: [i] shave, scrape; [ii] rub, smooth
reperiō, -īre, repperī, repertus [4]: find, discover
Notes
[1] ablative absolute constructions with the participle + noun
mortuā fēle │with the cat having died = after / when the cat has died (is dead)
mortuō cane │with the dog having died = after / when the dog has died (is dead)
[2] 2 words both of which have a second indeclinable part:
[a]
in quāvīs domō: in whichever house
[i] (here) functioning as an adjective:
quī¦vīs, quaevīs, quodvīs: whichever, whatever < [1] quī + [2] vīs (indeclinable: “you want”);
[ii] It can also stand alone as a pronoun
quīvīs, quaevīs, quidvīs: whoever (you will), anyone, whatever (you will), anything, whatsoever
[b] in suō quisque oppidō │ each one in his own house
quis¦que, quaeque, quodque: each (one) < [1] quis + [2] que (indeclineable)
[3] word order
(i) omnēs ¦ (ii) aedium illārum ¦ (i) incolae │ (i) all the inhabitants ¦ (ii) of that house
(ii) Būbastī ¦ (i) in oppidō │(i) in the town ¦ (ii) apposition: (of) Bubastis
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Few / not many animals are found in Egypt. Therefore, they are all held / regarded as sacred. Dogs and cats are worshipped. When a cat has died in any house, all the inhabitants of that house shave their eyebrows only: when a dog has died, they shave the whole of the body and head. Dead cats are buried in sacred tombs in the town of Bubastis. They bury dead dogs, each one in his own city. They also / even worship mice, spiders, hawks, ibises (and) mongooses.
