Legenda: Tigris (Pliny)

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Tigris (Pliny)

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The story of The Tiger is adapted from Pliny's Natural History with additional information from Hofmann's Lexicon Universale.

For more information about tigers, including the Physiologus legend about the tiger, visit the Tigris in the Zoo. You can also visit the Tiger page at the bestiary.ca website for a discussion in English, bibliography and other useful references.

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Tigris est animal velocitatis tremendae, et maxime cognitae dum capitur totus eius fetus, qui semper numerosus est.	velocitatis: genitive of description qui: relative pronoun, antecedent is fetus
Qui unum ex tigridis catulis volebat servare, universum fetum, qui numerosus plerumque, rapit.	qui: relative pronoun (agrees with subject of verb: "he, who wants... seizes..." qui: relative pronoun, antecedent is fetum
Tunc venator equo maxime pernici fugit atque in recentes equos subinde fetus transfertur.	maxime: adverb recentes: "fresh, new"
At ubi mater vacuum cubile reperit - maribus enim subolis non cura est — fertur praeceps odore vestigans.	enim: postpositive praeceps: adverb
Venator adpropinquante matris fremitu abicit ei unum ex catulis; tollit illa morsu et pondere etiam gravata ocior recurrit ad cubile.	adpropinquante...fremitu: ablative absolute ocior: adverb
Iterumque atque iterum raptorem consequitur et sic eam moratur, donec ad mare pervenisset;	pervenisset: subjunctive with expression of time (donec)
raptore in navem regresso tigris inrita feritate saevit in litore.	raptore...regresso: ablative absolute
Quod faciendo vix tamen unum ex universo fetu poterant subtrahere ob ferae pernicitatem.	quod: relative pronoun without stated antecedent (refers to this whole thing, this way of hunting) subtrahere: complementary infinitive with poterant