Friday, January 20, 2012

Can someone help me translate this Latin paragraph?

Arion was a very popular Greek poet, whose fame was spread all over the world. He went to Italy and Sicily from his homeland and made many towns happy through his poems. Barbaric peoples gave him presents. He was happier than lots of kings. Wild animal were delighted with his poems; they stayed there for many nights and listened to him with joy. Came the winter and Arion sailed to his homeland. But the sea was (tutius?) than the ship, and in fact the sailors attacked him with their swords. He escaped them and saved himself (jumping) in the water. But Arion, where he was, sang an extremely sad and wonderful poem. A dolphin, which had heard that poem, saved the poet and took him to his homeland.

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