Tum nōs “Chrīstiānī igitur fuerant in Britanniā iam ante adventum Sānctī Augustīnī?” inquimus. Et ille “fuerant” inquit; “nam basilicae ā Chrīstiānīs Britannicīs iam temporibus Rōmānīs aedificātae erant, quārum reliquiās vōs Dubrīs vīdistis et ego Callēvae vīdī. Post prīncipātum Nerōnis multī Chrīstiānī in imperiō Rōmānō fuērunt; nam annō prīmō et sexāgēsimō post Chrīstum nātum Sānctus Paulus Rōmam captīvus dēportātus est. Et uxor illīus Aulī Plautiī, quī iam aetāte prīncipis Claudiī Britanniae praefuit, Chrīstiāna fuisse exīstimātur. Nam ‘superstitiōnis peregrīnae’ accūsāta est. Nōmen eī fuit Pompōniae Graecīnae. Sed Anglī et Saxonēs, quī multōs deōs adōrābant, basilicās Chrīstiānās plērumque dēlēvērunt. Basilica autem Sānctī Martīnī, quae Durovernī erat, nōn omnīnō dēlēta erat. Durovernum igitur intrāvērunt nūntiī illī verbī dīvīnī, crucem argenteam et simulācrum Chrīstī in manibus tenentēs, et carmen sacrum cantantēs: ‘Īram tuam ab hāc urbe et ā domō tuā sānctā removē, ō Deus; quia peccāvimus: allēlūia!’ Sīc Beda, vir venerābilis, narrat.”
Notes
4th declension nouns
adventus, -ūs [4/m]: arrival
nātus, -ūs [4/m]: birth
principātus, -ūs [4/m]: rule; leadership
manus, -ūs [4/f]: hand
domus, -ūs: house; irregular (declined either as 2nd or 4th declension)
https://adckl.blogspot.com/2024/05/130424-domus.html
https://www.facebook.com/groups/latinforstarters/permalink/423891043555503/
Links: 4th declension nouns; all posts
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[1]
nam basilicae [feminine plural] … iam temporibus Rōmānīs aedificātae erant, ¦ quārum [feminine plural; genitive] reliquiās ¦ vōs Dubrīs vīdistis │ For the basilicas had already been built during Roman times, ¦ the remains of which ¦ you have seen at Dover
[2]
Et uxor illīus Aulī Plautiī … Chrīstiāna fuisse exīstimātur. │ And the wife of that Aulius Plautius is thought / considered to have been a Christian.
sum, esse, fu¦ī > fu¦isse │ to have been
See previous post: Level 3; Sonnenschein; Prō Patriā [9]; Anglī et Saxonēs [1]
https://adckl.blogspot.com/2025/05/020925-level-3-sonnenschein-pro-patria.html
https://adckl2.blogspot.com/2025/05/level-3-sonnenschein-pro-patria-9-angli.html
[3]
nūntiī … crucem argenteam et simulācrum Chrīstī in manibus tenentēs, et carmen sacrum cantantēs │ the messengers … holding a silver cross and the image of Christ in (their) hands, and singing a sacred song
Links: Present active participle; all posts
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Exercise
Find the Latin:
- Saint Paul was deported ¦ to Rome
- She was accused ¦ of foreign / alien superstition
- The basilica had not been completely destroyed
- The basilicas had been built ¦ by the Christian Romans
- The wife … is considered / thought …
Background
[1] Beda: Bede, also known as the Venerable Bede (La: Beda Venerabilis), an English monk and scholar, and one of the best-known authors of the Early Middle Ages, his most famous work being the Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede
[2] Calleva Atrebatum: an Iron Age settlement, capital of the Atrebates tribe and later a walled town under Roman provincial rule. The village of Silchester is about a mile from the site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calleva_Atrebatum
[3] Aulus Plautius: Roman politician and general who began the Roman conquest of Britain in 43AD and was the first governor of the province.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aulus_Plautius
[4] Pomponia Graecina, wife of Aulus Plautius; “In 57 AD Pomponia was charged with practising a "foreign superstition", which has been taken by some to mean conversion to Christianity, although there were other regulated cults in ancient Rome. “
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomponia_Graecina
Venerable Bede in an illustrated manuscript, writing his ‘Ecclesiastical History of the English People’; detail from a 12th-century codex
Site plan of Calleva Atrebatum
Excavations at Calleva Atrebatum
By Hut 8.5 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37387778
