Werewolf Story Kevin McGrath - Petronius
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By change , my master had gone out to Capua to acquire odds and ends . I , having obtained the opportunity , persuade our guest that he come with me to the 5th mile marker . He was a soldier as tough as Hell . We wandered off around the rooster-crow , the moon was shining like midday . We come among the gravestones , and my man began to pee on the headstones . I sit singing and count the gravestones . Then , as I looked back at my companion , he stripped himself and put all his clothes along the road . My breath was in my nose , I was standing like a dead man . But he peed around his clothes in a circle , and suddenly he has been made a wolf . Don ' t think that I ' m joking . I would make no such inheritance by lying .
"
Forte
dominus
Capuae
exierat
ad
scruta
scita
expedienda
.
Nactus
ego
occasionem
persuadeo
hospitem
nostrum
,
ut
mecum
ad
quintum
miliarium
veniat
.
Erat
autem
miles
,
fortis
tanquam
Orcus
.
Apoculamus
nos
circa
gallicinia
;
luna
lucebat
tanquam
meridie
.
Venimus
inter
monimenta
:
homo
meus
coepit
ad
stelas
facere
;
sedeo
ego
cantabundus
et
stelas
numero
.
Deinde
ut
respexi
ad
comitem
,
ille
exuit
se
et
omnia
vestimenta
secundum
viam
posuit
.
Mihi
anima
in
naso
esse
;
stabam
tanquam
mortuus
.
At
ille
circumminxit
vestimenta
sua
,
et
subito
lupus
factus
est
.
Nolite
me
iocari
putare
;
ut
mentiar
,
nullius
patrimonium
tanti
facio
.