Legenda: Antalops

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Antalops

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The story of The Antelope is adapted from Physiologus Latinus Versio Yand from a passage in Odo of Cheriton.

You can find this fable, Odo 17, along with other fables by Odo, at the aesopica.net website.

For more information about the antelope in Latin bestiaries, visit the Antalops in the Zoo. You can also visit the Antelope page at the bestiary.ca website for a discussion in English, bibliography and other useful references.

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Est animal quod dicitur antalops, acerrimum nimis, ut nec venator possit ei appropinquare.	quod: relative pronoun, antecedent is animal possit: subjunctive with ut appropinquare: complementary infinitive with possit
Habet autem longa cornua serrae figuram habentia, ut possit praecidere arbores magnas et altas, et ad terram deponere.	autem: postpositive possit: subjunctive with ut praecidere...deponere: complementary infinitives with possit
Si autem sitierit, vadit ad terribilem Eufraten flumen, et bibit.	autem: postpositive
Sunt autem ibi frutices tenues ramos habentes, et venit ad illam fruticem, et ludit cum uirgultis cornibus suis et obligatur in ramis et non potest caput extrahere.	autem: postpositive extrahere: complementary infinitive with potest
Et clamat, volens fugere, et non potest, obligatus est enim;	fugere: complementary infinitive with volens enim: postpositive (notice how obligatus-est is treated as a single word unit)
quo audito veniunt venatores et interficiunt eum.	quo: relative pronoun (antecedent is "that," i.e., the shouting of the antelope) quo audito: ablative absolute
Sic plerique ludunt cum negotiis istius mundi et implicantur.
Tot negotiis detinentur ut evelli non possint, et a daemonibus interficiuntur.	possint: subjunctive with ut evelli: complementary infinitive with possint