Werewolf story Johnny Cardarelli
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Latin
English
" 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 .
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
.