ALENCAR

O Guarani 14.33 · 14.33

Life for life, tear for tear

Read the full text in our reader

Tinham morto sua filha, era justo que matassem também a filha do seu inimigo: vida por vida, lágrima por lágrima, desgraça por desgraça.

Word by word

TinhamTEEN-yowngThey hadmortoMOR-tookilledsuaSOO-atheirfilhaFEE-lyadaughter,eraE-rait wasjustoZHOOSH-toojustquekethatmatassemma-TA-sengthey should killtambémtam-BENGalsoaathefilhaFEE-lyadaughterdodooofseuseh-ootheirinimigoee-nee-MEE-gooenemy:vidaVEE-dalifeporpoorforvidaVEE-dalife,lágrimaLA-gree-matearporpoorforlágrimaLA-gree-matear,desgraçadesh-GRA-samisfortuneporpoorfordesgraçadesh-GRA-samisfortune.

The setting

They had killed their daughter; it was just that they should kill also the daughter of their enemy: life for life, tear for tear, misfortune for misfortune.

Open O Guarani 14.33 in the full reader

Always open passages in the reader

From the Great Library

You are reading a page of the O Guarani — the whole book is free in our interlinear reader.

The Great Library Project presses the classics in their original languages, glossed word by word — free to read, always. Browse the whole library.

Also on our shelves:

❦

O Guarani 14.33 — The Great Library Project interlinear edition · greatlibraryproject.com/book/guarani/14.33/