7.1  memorant : Herculem   …  

                             Geryone interempto (abl. abs.)

                   boves mirā speciē abēgisse,

                             ac prope Tiberim fluuium,

                             quā … armentum agens …traiecerat,

                                                                   nando (by swimming)

                              (in) loco herbido

                                      ut quiete et pabulo laeto reficeret boves

                   et (Herculem) ipsum fessum via procubuisse.

Ibi cum sopor oppressisset eum

                             cibo uinoque gravatum

pastor accola eius loci, nomine Cacus, ferox viribus,

                                       captus pulchritudine boum

          cum avertere eam praedam vellet,

          quia  … ipsa uestigia …dominum eo deductura erant,

                   si agendo armentum in speluncam compulisset

          aversos boves  … caudis in speluncam traxit.

                   = eximium quemque pulchritudine  (‘each excellent in beauty’)

Hercules ad primam auroram somno excitus

          cum gregem perlustrasset oculis

                   et partem abesse numero sensisset,

pergit ad proximam speluncam,

                   si forte eo uestigia ferrent.

Quae (vestigia),  ubi …vidit omnia foras versa nec in partem aliam ferre,       

                confusus atque incertus animi

                   ex loco infesto agere porro armentum occepit.

Inde cum actae boves quaedam …mugissent,

                             ad desiderium… relictarum (boum)