Meaning of rostrum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. bill or beak of a bird
   declension-2
2. snout or muzzle of an animal
   declension-2
3. prow of a ship
   declension-2
4. a stage or platform for speaking in the forum
   declension-2, plural-normally

Equivalents

Examples

“Ībis avis Nīlī flūminis, quae sēmetipsam purgat, rōstrō in ānum aquam fundēns. Haec serpentium ōva vēscitur, grātissimam ex eīs ēscam nīdīs suīs dēportāns.”

The ibis is a bird of the river Nile, which cleans itself by pouring water into its anus with its beak. It devours the eggs of snakes, carrying from them to its nests the most welcome food.

“Sīve ego, quod nōlim, longīs cōnsūmptus ab annīs, sīve manū factā morte solūtus erō, sīve per inmēnsās iactābor naufragus undās, nostraque longinquus viscera piscis edet, sīve peregrīnae carpent mea membra volucrēs, sīve meō tinguent sanguine rōstra lupī, sīve aliquis dignātus erit suppōnere terrae et dare plēbēiō corpus ināne rogō, quicquid erō, Stygiīs ērumpere nītar ab ōrīs,”

Whether I shall be consumed by the long years, which I do not want, whether I shall be set free by a death caused by a hand, whether I shall be thrown shipwrecked about the immense waves and a fish from far away lands my guts will eat, whether wandering birds my limbs should rip, whether wolves will stain their snouts with my blood, whether someone will be dignified to lay on the ground and give to a plebeian pyre my useless body, whatever I shall be, I shall strive to break from the banks of the Styx and I'll hold my icy hands in your face as an avenger.

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