Sample for Astronomia: Fabula Planetarum

Astronomia: Fabula Planetarum is a Latin novella published by Bombax Press. This sample for Astronomia contains a two-page spread from the novella, covering non-fiction text about the planet Jupiter and a short myth covering the birth of Minerva. For more information about the novella, including all the myths covered in the novella, visit this post.

This novella contains 308 words, including 42 glosses, 90 cognates, and 43 proper nouns. A working vocabulary of 133 words is required for reading this novella. To review the vocabulary used in the novella, visit the complete Index Verborum for Astronomia.

Sample for Astronomia: Fabula Planetarum

Iuppiter

Ecce, maxima planēta in nostrō systēmate sōlārī est: Iuppiter. Nōn sunt planētae maiōrēs quam Iuppiter. Omnēs planētae minōrēs quam Iuppiter sunt. Iuppiter nōn est planēta saxōsa, sed gasōsa. Atmosphaera Iovis[1] hydrogenium et helium habet.

Diēs in planētā nōn est longus. Diēs est decem hōrae! Omnēs planētae in systēmate sōlārī habent diēs longiōrēs quam diem in planētā Iovis. Sed annus in planēta est longus. Annus in planētā Iove est 12 annī in nostrā Tellūre.

Iuppiter Magnam Maculam Rubram habet. Macula est tempestās.[2] Magna Macula Rubra est ovālis et maior quam Tellūs. Hominēs nesciunt orīginem tempestātis, sed astronomus, nōmine Iōannēs Dominicus Cassīnus, dēscrīpsit similem maculam permanentem annō 1665. Antequam[3] Cassīnus dēscrīpsit maculam, nēmō[4] dēscrīpserat (aut vīderat) maculam in Iove. Ego putō Cassīnum prīmō vīdit Magnam Maculam Rubram.

Hominēs antīquī sciēbant dē planētā Iovis, sed nesciēbant planētam habēre lūnās. Annō 1610, Galilaeus quattuor lūnās telescopiō invēnit. Antequam Galilaeus lūnās Iovis invēnit, hominēs putāvērunt nōn esse lūnās in caelō praeter[5] nostram Lūnam.

Iuppiter

Iuppiter deus immortālis est, et pater hominum est. Iuppiter pater multōrum deōrum et multārum deārum est.

Ōlim, caput[6] Iovī dolēbat[7]. Iuppiter caput cēpit et exclāmāvit, “Caput dolet!”

Omnēs deī Iovem spectāvērunt, et Iūnō rogāvit, “Quid nōs dēbēmus agere?”

Iuppiter respondit, “Ego nesciō, sed caput dolet!”

Mārs rogāvit, “Egone dēbeō removēre caput tibi?”

Iuppiter respondit, “Minimē, sed caput dolet!”

Bacchus rogāvit, “Egone dēbeō offerre vīnum[8] tibi?”

Iuppiter respondit, “Minimē! Caput dolet!”

Vulcānus nōn rogāvit, sed cēpit secūrim.[9] Vulcānus pulsāvit[10] caput Iovī secūrī, et dea Minerva ē capite Iovī īvit. Minerva adulta erat.

“Salvē, pater! Doletne caput?” Minerva rogāvit.

Iuppiter Minervam spectāvit, et respondit, “Em, minimē.”