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The Latin reading blog: Phaedrus fable 18: give birth in bed!
The following fable is actually not a fable at all, as it is about human beings. It is a joke: a woman about to give birth is lying in pains on the ground. Her husband admonishes her to lie on bed, but she refuses to go back to the place where the trouble started in the first place. Ha-ha! Well, I have some pregnant friends and this fable might be of use.
Nemo libenter recolit qui laesit locum.
Instante partu mulier actis mensibus
humi iacebat, flebilis gemitus ciens.
Vir est hortatus, corpus lecto reciperet,
onus naturae melius quo deponeret.
'Minime' inquit 'illo posse confido loco
malum finiri quo conceptum est initio'.
parturio: to be about to give birth
Nemo libenter recolit qui laesit locum = nemo libenter recolit locum qui laesit
recolo recolui recultum: to recall to mind
laedo laesi laesum: to hurt
Instante partu and actis mensibus are abl. abs.
Humi: on the ground (one of the few examples of the locative case)
gemitus –us (m): a sigh, lament
cieo civi citum: to stir, utter
Vir est hortatus, corpus lecto reciperet, onus naturae melius quo deponeret. = Vir est hortatus, ut mulier corpus (acc) eius in lecto reciperet, quo onus naturae melius deponeret.
recipio recepi receptum: to bring back
onus naturae: the burden of nature (= the baby)
quo conceptum est initio =  quo malum conceptum est in initio
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