Usages of silva
In insula magna est silva, et multi senes ibi habitant.
On the large island there is a forest, and many old men live there.
Senex saepe in silva ambulat et caelum spectat.
(An old man often walks in the forest and looks at the sky.)
Tempus in urbe fugit, sed in silva manet.
Time flees in the city, but remains in the forest.
Tempestas in silva manet.
The storm remains in the forest.
Magnum flumen inter oppidum et silvam est.
A great river is between the town and the forest.
Puer et puella per silvam ambulant et flumen clarum spectant.
The boy and the girl walk through the forest and look at the clear river.
Via, quae per silvam ducit, longa est, sed tuta.
The path that leads through the forest is long, but safe.
In silva serpens longus e gramine apparet, sed magistra discipulos monet ne ad serpentem accedant.
In the forest a long snake appears out of the grass, but the teacher warns the students not to approach the snake.
Nocte in silva lupi ululare dicuntur, sed hodie nullus lupus prope villam visus est.
At night wolves are said to howl in the forest, but today no wolf was seen near the house.
Post scholam magistra discipulos ad silvam ducit, ubi quercus altae et pinus densae crescunt.
After school the teacher leads the students to a forest, where tall oaks and thick pines grow.
In illa silva umbra tam densa est ut etiam meridie frigus parvum sentiatur.
In that forest the shade is so thick that even at midday a little cold is felt.
Magistra vult haec verba a Lucia clarius recitari, ut omnes intellegant quid in silva visum sit.
The teacher wants these words to be recited more clearly by Lucia, so that everyone may understand what was seen in the forest.
Quamvis silva densa esset, puellae non timebant, quia magistra aderat et viam bene sciebat.
Although the forest was thick, the girls were not afraid, because the teacher was present and knew the way well.
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