Caeneus Tells His Story: Andrea Dugonicius, Argonauticorum book 8

Caeneus Tells His Story

Name:   Andrea Dugonicius Date:   18th century Region:   Szecseny [modern Hungary] Citation:   The Argonauts, or the Golden Fleece Book 8, p. 203 (1778)

Caeneus and Tiresias were seen as the archetypal trans heroes of Greek myth, and occasionally their stories were conflated. In this account of Caeneus, the author here is using elements from the myths of both Tiresias [who transforms from a woman back into a man after seven years] and the myth of Iphis [who was transformed into a man on his wedding day]. 

We had scarcely left sight of Delos and were contemplating what we’d learned. I wasn’t the only one who was worried about the prophecies we’d been given in the shrine. Everyone was either really happy or really terrified about it, but nobody was more worried than Caeneus, for Apollo predicted that he would again become a woman.

I told him, “Hey, Caeneus, buddy, what’s going on? Fill me in so I’m not still in the dark—you used to be a woman?”

He replied, “I was a woman, but now, thanks to the blessings of Neptune, you know me as a man.”

When he didn’t respond anything else, I asked him, friend-to-friend, to tell me more, and then Caeneus told me everything:

“My dad Elatus got a prophecy from the gods, I guess, that he’d be killed by his firstborn daughter, so he avoided getting married. Finally, a bunch of his friends convinced him to do so, so he married the daughter of Antippus. When she gave birth to me and saw she’d birthed a girl, she ignored my father’s prophecy and hid my gender and called me Caeneus. Later on, when I became old enough to get married, I listened to my mother Hippea’s advice and put off getting married. I kept rejecting all of the girls, and really liked hanging out with guys. My father kept hounding me about getting married, and even threatened me with terrible things if  I didn’t obey his will. Well, he finally got his way (even though I didn’t want to). I was betrothed to one of the Magnesian girls, and I kept praying and giving offerings to Neptune to save me.

My prayers were so desperate, that they even found their way underwater. For when I approached the altar on my wedding day, I felt that I had become a man—and that everything got better when I had the body of a man. My mind was now sharper, as well as my reasoning powers; my civic duty was more productive; my romantic love was more purified, and more mellow; my relationships with my friends were stronger, and finally, I gained a yearning for true and wholesome glory. If I change back to a girl, if I lose all of this, what will I do? What friends will I have? Where will I turn?”

This was what Caeneus was worried about.

  

Caeneus Tells His Story

Vix e conspectu Deli discessimus, illico variae cogitationes mortalium animos occuparunt. Non alia potior cogitandi materies, quam edita in Fano oracula. Suam quisque fortunam aut amabat in iis, aut metuebat.

Sed Caeneo magis nemo angebatur, quem iterum foeminam futurum Apollo praedixerat. “Quid vero est,” inquiebam, “mi Caeneu, hoc ne ego ignorare adhuc potui, olim te fuisse foeminam?”

“Fui,” reposuit ille, “foemina, at nunc Neptuni beneficio virum noveris.”

 Cum dein nihil reponeret, ego socium, uti rem aperiat, rogare; tum ille ita recensere historiam:

“Pater meus Elatus, nescio, quo Deorum responso certior redditus: fore, uti a filia, quam primam sustulisset, necaretur, diu a mulierum societate penitus abstinuit; tandem multis Amicorum suasionibus inductus Antippo genitam in coniugem adlegit, quae cum me in lucem ederet, et puellam videret, eorum, quae Patri responsa erant, non immemor, sexum occultavit, atque adpellavit Caeneum. Post, ubi ad eam aetatem perveni, qua uxor e civibus deligenda erat, ego Matris Hippeae monitu omne coniugium respuere, aversari omnes virgines; cum iuvenibus libenter conversari, contra urgere coniugium Pater, et, ni voluntati obsequerer, mala comminari omnia.

Vicit obstinatam. Despondi unam e Magnesiis invita, simulque Neptunum, uti nunc demum miserae succureret, voto precata, et suppliciis. Tam fervens oratio fuit, ut penetrare in maria potuerit. Cum enim ad aras accederem, virum me esse sensi, quo cum sexu omnia mihi pariter bona contigerunt: mens praestantior, et ratio; sollers cura Reipublicae; fervor in amando purior, et decoctus magis; adhoc arctum cum amicis vinculum; postremo gloriae adpetitus verae, atque solidae. His ego omnibus, si sexum mutavero, orbus, quid agam? quo me vertam socii?” Haec de sua sorte Caeneus.

Andrea Dugonicius [18th century, modern Hungary] was born in Szecseny, Hungary, and spent his life contributing to the world as a scholar and a clergyman. One of his most famous works was a 24 volume novel in Latin called The Argonautica.

Ace Champion Atalanta: Hyginus, Fab. 185

Name: Hyginus   Date:  64 BCE – 17 CE Region:  Hispania [modern Spain] / Alexandria [modern Egypt]; Rome [modern Italy] Citation:  Fables 185

It is said that Schoeneus had a beautiful daughter named Atalanta who surpassed men on the racetrack with her own athletic ability. She asked her father to remain unmarried, so whenever one of her many suitors asked for her hand in marriage, her father would set up a contest. A suitor who wanted to marry his daughter had to first run a race with Atalanta, but he would run the track unarmed, while she pursued him with a spear. After she hunted him down and killed him, she would put his head on display on the racetrack. After Atalanta had defeated and killed many suitors this way, she was finally defeated by Hippomenes [the son of Megareus and Merope]. Venus gave Hippomenes three special apples, and told him how to use them. During the race, he tossed the apples to the girl to slow down the race. She slowed down while she collected them and marveled at their golden appearance, and so the youth ended up winning the race. Schoeneus was impressed by the trick and happily married off his daughter to Hippomenes. But while he led her back to his homeland, Hippomenes forgot that he only won the race by Venus’ help, and did not thank her. Venus grew angry at that, and while Hippomenes was sacrificing to Jupiter the Winner on Mount Parnassus, he became overcome with lust and slept with Atalanta in the god’s sacred shrine. Because of this act, Jupiter turned them into lions, so they could no longer sleep together again*.

* According to ancient superstition, lions and lionesses could not mate with each other.

Schoeneus filiam Atalantam virginem formosissimam dicitur habuisse, quae virtute sua cursu viros superabat. ea petiit a patre ut se virginem servaret. itaque cum a pluribus in coniugium peteretur, pater eius simultatem constituit, qui eam ducere vellet prius in certamine cursu cum ea contenderet, termino constituto, ut ille inermis fugeret haec cum telo insequeretur; quem intra finem termini constituta fuisset interficeret, cuius caput in stadio figeret. plerosque cum superasset et ocidisset novissime ab Hippomene Megarei et Meropes filio victa est. hic enim a Venere mala tria insignis formae acceperat, edoctus quis usus in eis esset. qui in ipso certamine iactando puellae impetum alligavit. illa enim dum colligit et ammiratur aurum, declinavit et iuveni victoriam tradidit. cui Schoeneus ob industriam libens filiam suam dedit uxorem. Hanc cum in patriam duceret, oblitus beneficio Veneris se vicisse, grates ei non egit. irata Venere in monte Parnasso cum sacrificaret Iovi Victori, cupiditate incensus cum ea in fano concubuit. quos Iupiter ob id factum in leonem et leam convertit,  quibus dii concubitum Veneris denegant.

Hyginus [Caius Julius Hyginus; 64 BCE – 17 CE, modern Spain or Egypt] was one of Augustus’ freedmen and a famous mythographer. He was originally from Hispania [modern Spain].  Some think that he was actually from Alexandria [modern Egypt], and brought to Rome as a boy by Caesar after the fall of Alexandria. He studied under the Greek scholar Cornelius Alexander, then followed in his footsteps. He was in charge of the Palatine library, and despite this, still had the time to teach many people. He was very close friends with the poet Ovid and Clodius Licinius, the former consul and historian who, after Hyginus fell into poverty, supported him financially for as long as he lived.

I Will Never Be Yours: An Ace Daphne Confronts Apollo, M. Marullus

Daphne: I’ll Never Be Yours, Apollo

Name: Michele Marullo Tarchaniota Date: 1330 – 1408 CE Region:   Constantinople [modern Turkey] / Volterra [modern Italy] Citation:   Illustrated Myths of Ovid (1580) 17

I am now safe from your divinity,

As a newly transformed bay tree!

I, a maiden who stayed a maiden,

I, who was mean to her stalker.

And now he hugs my naked branches and tells me to rejoice that I am now his.

I may be your tree, but I’ll not be your spouse. [1]

 

Daphne: I’ll Never Be Yours, Apollo

Tuta suis monstris, et iam nova Laurea Daphne:

Aspera amatori sic quoque virgo suo:

Nunc ait, exulta ramos complexus inanes:

Ut tua sim, coniunx non ero nempe tua.

 

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[1] A reference to the famous line of the version in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 1.557-558 [“'at, quoniam coniunx mea non potes esse, /  arbor eris certe' dixit 'mea!” / “But since you cannot be my wife, you can be my tree!”].

Michele Marullo Tarcaniota [1458 – 1500 CE, Constantinople, modern Turkey / Volterra, modern Italy] was a famous scholar and author known for his Greco-Roman mythology-themed poetry.

Aeneas Says Trans Rights: Chloreus, Vergil, Aen.11.768-789

Chloreus, Aeneas’ Gallus Soldier

Name:  Vergil Date:  70 – 19 BCE Region:  Mantua [modern northern Italy] Citation:  Aeneid 11.768 – 784

It happened that Chloreus,

A sacred retired priest of Cybele [1],

Was sparkling conspicuously in Phrygian armor

As they rode their horse onward. Their horse

Was covered in gilded bronze adornments

The way that feathers adorn a bird.

Chloreus was equally conspicuous,

Wearing bright purple armor,

Shooting Gortynian arrows from a Lycian bow.

There was a golden ceremonial bow on their shoulders

And they wore a priest’s helmet, also golden;

They tied their purple cloak with a golden tie;

They even wore pants—how barbaric!—embroidered with a needle.

Camilla spotted them from far away,

And wanted to seize the Trojan armor,

Either to dedicate it as an offering in a temple

Or perhaps she wanted to wear the golden outfit herself.

The Amazon hunter blindly targeted Chloreus   

For single combat, and,

While she burned with a womanly love of treasure

And was caught off guard,

Arruns used the advantage to brandish his weapon deceitfully...

 

[1]  Chloreus is coded as a gallus.

Chloreus, Aeneas’ Gallus Soldier

Forte sacer Cybelo Chloreus olimque sacerdos

insignis longe Phrygiis fulgebat in armis

spumantemque agitabat equum, quem pellis aenis             

in plumam squamis auro conserta tegebat.

Ipse peregrina ferrugine clarus et ostro

spicula torquebat Lycio Gortynia cornu;

aureus ex umeris erat arcus et aurea vati

cassida; tum croceam chlamydemque sinusque crepantis  

carbaseos fulvo in nodum collegerat auro

pictus acu tunicas et barbara tegmina crurum.

Hunc virgo, sive ut templis praefigeret arma

Troia, captivo sive ut se ferret in auro

venatrix, unum ex omni certamine pugnae             

caeca sequebatur totumque incauta per agmen

femineo praedae et spoliorum ardebat amore,

telum ex insidiis cum tandem tempore capto

concitat … 

Vergil, also known as Virgil, [Publius Vergilius Maro; 70 – 19 BCE, modern Italy] was born in Mantua, Cisalpine Gaul, and lived during the tumultuous transition of Roman government from republic to monarchy. His writing talent earned him a place of honor among Maecenas’ fellow authors under Augustan rule. He was friends with numerous famous authors of the time period, including Horace and Asinius Pollio. His former slave Alexander was the most influential romantic partner in his life, and the poet memorialized his love for him under the pseudonym “Alexis” in Eclogue 2. His masterpiece, the Aeneid, tells the story of Aeneas’ migration from Troy to Italy; it was used for centuries as the pinnacle of Roman literature.

M/M: Dying like a flower: Hyacinthus & Euryalus, Servius In Aen. 9.433

Name: Servius Date: 4th – 5th century CE Region: [modern Italy] Citation:   Commentary on the Aeneid, 9.433

9.433: “Like when a purple flower is cut by a plow.” This is the rationale for the comparison:  it is appropriate to compare Hyacinthus to Euryalus, because he was also a very beautiful man and he also turned into a flower when he died.

 

433] PURPUREUS VELUTI CUM FLOS SUCCISUS ARATRO habetur ratio comparationis: videtur enim Euryalo Hyacinthum comparare, qui pulcherrimus fuit et post mortem conversus in florem est 

 Servius [Maurus Servius Honoratus; 4th – 5th century CE] Servius’ name is unfortunately the only thing we know of this author. Little is known about the author or manuscript tradition for the grammatical commentary of Vergil’s Aeneid.

 

Apollo and Venus, United in Grief: a poem by Faustus Sabaeus

Name: Faustus Sabaeus Date: 16th century CE   Region:  Brixia [Brescia, modern Italy] Citation:   Illustrated Myths of Ovid

While Venus and Apollo were wandering through the blossoming fields on Cyprus,

They noticed that the soil had vibrant stars*.

And over here they ran into the Hyacinth flower,

And over there they spotted the red Adonis flower,

Each one beautiful even in death.

Apollo said, “Tell me, sister,  does this land

Gloat over the death of our boyfriends,

Or is the earth weeping alongside us in pain?

This star is my grief, and that star is yours;

This one was Hyacinth, the other was Adonis.”

 

* a metaphor for flower

Dum Venus in Cypro, & Phoebus per prata vagantes

F1orida: habere solum* sidera picta vident:

Dumque Hyacinthus ibi, atque rubens occurrit Adonis:

Pulcher uterque suo funere, Phoebus ait:

Dic soror, haec nostris num exultat amoribus istis?

An luctu & nostro terra dolore gemit?

Hic meus, iste tuus dolor, & gratissimus ignis:

Ille Hyacinthus erat: alter Adonis erat.

 

 Faustus Sabaeus [16th century, modern Italy] was a librarian of the Vatican library who composed numerous poems on mythology-based themes.

 

 

 

Saving the Life of a Friend: David & Jonathan, 1 Samuel 20

Defying a Parent to Save a Friend: David and Jonathan II

Citation:  1 Samuel 20

David fled from Nahioth (a region in Ramatha). He came to Jonathan and said, “What have I done wrong? What wrong have I committed against your father that he is trying to kill me?”

And Jonathan said to David, “No! You will not die. My father won't do anything, large or small, without telling me first. Has my father then hidden this plan from me? No, it cannot be.” And once again Jonathan swore an oath to David.

And David said, “Well, of course your father knows that you look upon me fondly, and he will say, ‘Let's keep Jonathan in the dark about this so he won't be upset.’ But

surely as the Lord lives, and as surely as your soul lives, I tell you what, there is only one step between me and death.”

And Jonathan said to David, “Whatever your soul asks of me, I will provide.”

David told Jonathan, “Look, tomorrow is the first of the month, and I usually sit beside the king at dinner (as royal custom dictates). Let me go and instead I'm going to hide in the countryside until the evening of the third day.

“If your father asks where I am, tell him that I asked you to go to my hometown Bethlehem for religious reasons. If he is okay with it, I'm safe, but if he's angry about it, then you’ll know the extent of his ill will towards me. Have mercy upon me, your servant, for you have entered a covenant of the Lord with me. If, however, I have done any wrong, then kill me instead of bringing me to your father.”

And Jonathan replied, “Of course you haven't done me any wrong. If I find out that my father is plotting evil against you, of course I'll tell you.”

David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father makes threats against me?”

And Jonathan told David, “Come on, let's go to the countryside.” And when they both went to the countryside.

Jonathan told David, “I swear to God, if I figure out what my father has planned, either tomorrow, or the next day, and if he has good intentions for David, but I don't immediately send for you and let you know, then let the Lord curse Jonathan, and even worse! But if my father's malice against you continues, I will tell you, and I will send you away in peace. And the Lord may be with you as He has been with my father. And if I live, may the Lord have mercy upon

me, but if I die, may the Lord not take away His mercy from my house forever, just as the Lord has obliterated the enemies of David from the face of the earth.”

And so Jonathan made an oath with the house of David, and the Lord fulfilled it against the hands of the enemies of David, and Jonathan renewed his oath to David, for he cherished him as much as he did for his own soul.

Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the first of the month, and your absence will be noticed. You need to be absent before tomorrow. So leave quickly to your hiding spot. On the very next workday, settle down by the rock called Ezel, and I will shoot three arrows next to it, pretending to use the rock as target practice. I will send a slave to fetch the arrows back. If I tell the slave, ‘Hey, the arrows are close to you,’ then pick them up and approach me, for you’re safe and

there is no plot against you (as the Lord lives). But if I tell the slave, ‘Hey, the arrows are far away,’ then run for your life, for the Lord has sent you from this place. Regarding the oath we spoke together, may the Lord be beside you and me forever and always.”

So David hid in the countryside, and the first of the month came, and King Saul sat down for the feast. When King Saul sat down on his throne by the wall (as was his custom), Jonathan rose up and Abner sat down beside the king. David’s spot was empty.

And Saul didn’t say anything, for he thought something might have happened to David, that he was impure or needed a purification ritual.

And on the next day, when David was still missing, Saul asked Jonathan why David, the son of Isai was absent for dinner both yesterday and today.

And Jonathan replied to Saul, “He asked me to leave for Bethlehem. He told me, ‘Please let me go, for there is a holy sacrifice ritual in my hometown. One of my brothers has come and invited me to it. If I have found favor in your eyes, let me go quickly and visit my brothers.’ And that's the reason why he's not at the royal feast.”

Saul angrily lashed out against Jonathan.  He said, “[Insult], you think I don't know that you love David to the point of shamefulness, and to the point of your mother's shame? For as long as the son of Isai [David] lives on the earth, your life will not be set firm, nor will your kingdom. So go fetch him, for he is the son of death.”

Jonathan replied to his father Saul, “Why should he die? What has he done?”

And Saul snatched up a spear to strike him down, and Jonathan realized that his father had his heart set on killing David.

Jonathan got up and angrily left the table. He did not eat bread on the second day of the month, worried for David and upset because of his father[’s actions].

The next day, Jonathan went out to the countryside in the spot he and David had agreed to meet.  He brought a young slave boy with him.

And he told the slave, “Go and fetch my arrows as I shoot them.” As the boy ran, the shot an arrow past the boy.

The boy came to the place where Jonathan shot the arrow and Jonathan shouted to the boy, “Hey, the arrow is past you!”

Jonathan shouted out to the boy, “Hurry up, don't just wait around!” The slave collected Jonathan's arrows and brought them back to his master.

The slave didn't know the meaning of this; only Jonathan and David knew the secret message.

Jonathan gave his armor to the slave and told him to bring them back to the city.

When the slave was gone, David left his hiding place (which was to the south), and falling on the ground, he knelt at Jonathan's feet three times. Both kissed one another and wept. But David wept more.

Jonathan told David, “Go in peace. Let our covenant which we swore in the name of the Lord between you and me remain for us and our descendants forever.”

And David got up and left. And Jonathan returned to the city.

 

Fugit autem David de Nahioth, quae est in Ramatha, veniensque locutus est coram Jonathan, “Quid feci? Quae est iniquitas mea, et quod peccatum meum in patrem tuum quia quaerit animam meam?”

Qui dixit ei, “Absit non morieris, neque enim faciet pater meus quidquam grande vel parvum nisi prius indicaverit mihi. Hunc ergo celavit me pater meus sermonem tantummodo nequaquam erit istud.”

Et iuravit rursum Davidi. Et ille ait, “Scit profecto pater tuus quia inveni gratiam in oculis tuis et dicet nesciat hoc Jonathan ne forte tristetur. Quinimmo vivit Dominus, et vivit anima tua, quia uno tantum (ut ita dicam) gradu ego morsque dividimur.”

Et ait Jonathan ad David, “quodcumque dixerit mihi, anima tua faciam tibi.”

Dixit autem David ad Jonathan, “Ecce kalendae sunt crastino, et ego ex more sedere soleo iuxta regem ad vescendum. Dimitte ergo me ut abscondar in agro usque ad vesperam diei tertiae. Si respiciens requisierit me pater tuus, respondebis ei ‘Rogavit me David ut iret celeriter in Bethlehem civitatem suam, quia victimae sollemnes ibi sunt universis contribulibus suis.’ Si dixerit, ‘Bene, pax erit servo tuo,’ Si autem fuerit iratus, scito quia conpleta est malitia eius.

Fac ergo misericordiam in servum tuum, quia foedus Domini me famulum tuum tecum inire fecisti. Si autem est aliqua iniquitas in me, tu me interfice et ad patrem tuum, ne introducas me.”

Et ait Jonathan, “Absit hoc a te, neque enim fieri potest, ut si certo cognovero, conpletam patris mei esse malitiam contra te, non adnuntiem tibi.”

Responditque David ad Jonathan, “Quis nuntiabit mihi, si quid forte responderit tibi pater tuus dure de me?”

Et ait Jonathan ad David, “Veni, egrediamur in agrum.”

Cumque exissent ambo in agrum, ait Jonathan ad David, “Domine Deus Israhel, si investigavero sententiam patris mei crastino vel perendie, et aliquid boni fuerit super David et non statim misero ad te et notum tibi fecero, haec faciat Dominus Jonathan et haec addat. Si autem perseveraverit patris mei malitia adversum te revelabo, aurem tuam et dimittam te, ut vadas in pace et sit Dominus tecum sicut fuit cum patre meo. Et si vixero, facies mihi misericordiam Domini. Si vero mortuus fuero, non auferas misericordiam tuam a domo mea usque in sempiternum quando eradicaverit Dominus inimicos David ununquemque de terra.”

Pepigit ergo foedus Jonathan cum domo David et requisivit Dominus de manu inimicorum David, et addidit Jonathan deierare David, eo quod diligeret illum sicut animam enim suam ita diligebat eum.

Dixitque ad eum Jonathan, “Cras kalendae sunt, et requireris. Requiretur enim sessio tua usque perendie descendes ergo festinus, et venies in locum ubi celandus es in die qua operari licet, et sedebis iuxta lapidem cui est nomen Ezel. Et ego tres sagittas mittam iuxta eum, et iaciam quasi exercens me ad signum mittam quoque et puerum dicens ei, ‘Vade, et adfer mihi sagittas.’ Si dixero puero, ‘Ecce, sagittae intra te sunt tolle eas,’ tu veni ad me, quia pax tibi est et nihil est mali, vivit Dominus. Si autem sic locutus fuero puero, ‘Ecce, sagittae ultra te sunt,’ vade in pace, quia dimisit te Dominus.

De verbo autem quod locuti sumus ego et tu sit Dominus inter me et te usque in sempiternum.”

Absconditus est ergo David in agro, et venerunt kalendae et sedit rex ad comedendum panem. Cumque sedisset rex super cathedram suam (secundum consuetudinem) quae erat iuxta parietem, surrexit Jonathan et sedit Abner ex latere Saul vacuusque apparuit locus David. Et non est locutus Saul quidquam in die illa cogitabat enim quod forte evenisset ei ut non esset mundus, nec purificatus. Cumque inluxisset dies secunda post kalendas rursum vacuus apparuit locus David, dixitque Saul ad Jonathan filium suum, “Cur non venit filius Isai nec heri nec hodie ad vescendum?”

Et respondit Jonathan Sauli, “Rogavit me obnixe, ut iret in Bethlehem, et ait, ‘Dimitte me, quoniam sacrificium sollemne est in civitate unus de fratribus meis. Accersivit me nunc ergo, si inveni gratiam in oculis tuis, vadam cito et videbo fratres meos.’ Ob hanc causam non venit ad mensam regis.” 

Iratus autem Saul adversus Jonathan dixit ei, “Filii mulieris virum ultro rapientis, numquid ignoro quia diligis filium Isai in confusionem tuam et in confusionem ignominiosae matris tuae omnibus enim diebus, quibus filius Isai vixerit super terram, non stabilieris tu, neque regnum tuum. Itaque iam nunc mitte et adduc eum ad me, quia filius mortis est!”

Respondens autem Jonathan Sauli patri suo ait, “Quare morietur? Quid fecit?”

Et arripuit Saul lanceam, ut percuteret eum, et intellexit Jonathan quod definitum esset patri suo ut interficeret David. Surrexit ergo Jonathan a mensa in ira furoris et non comedit in die kalendarum secunda panem contristatus est enim super David, eo quod confudisset eum pater suus.

Cumque inluxisset mane venit Jonathan in agrum iuxta placitum David et puer parvulus cum eo, et ait ad puerum suum, “Vade, et adfer mihi sagittas quas ego iacio.”

Cumque puer cucurrisset, iecit aliam sagittam trans puerum. Venit itaque puer ad locum iaculi quod miserat Jonathan et clamavit Jonathan post tergum pueri et ait, “Ecce ibi est sagitta porro ultra te!”

Clamavit Jonathan post tergum, “Pueri, festina velociter, ne steteris!”

Collegit autem puer Jonathae sagittas et adtulit ad dominum suum, et quid ageretur penitus ignorabat tantummodo enim Jonathan et David rem noverant.

Dedit igitur Jonathan arma sua puero et dixit ei, “Vade, defer in civitatem.”

Cumque abisset puer, surrexit David de loco, qui vergebat ad austrum et cadens pronus in terram adoravit tertio et osculantes se alterutrum fleverunt pariter, David autem amplius.

Dixit ergo Jonathan ad David, “Vade in pace quaecumque iuravimus ambo in nomine Domine, dicentes ‘Dominus sit inter me et te et inter semen meum et semen tuum usque in sempiternum.’”

Et surrexit et abiit sed et Jonathan ingressus est civitatem.