Translate: 1: nunc ulixes ad insulam sirenum navigabit. 2: sirenes erant feminae pulchrae.3:   sirenes corpora avium et capita puellarum habebant. 4: carmina dulcia nautis canebant. 5: naves hominum dulcibus carminibus ad saxa atrahebantur. 6: ulixes consilium capit! 7:   ulixes ceram in auribus nautarum ponit.8:   nautae ulixem ad malum (mast) ligant.9:   ulixes carmen sirenum audit, sed sui (his own) viri sunt tuti.

1. Ulysses will now sail to the island of the mermaids.

2. Mermaids were beautiful women.

3. Mermaids had the body of a fish and the head of a girl.

4. They sang sweet songs to the sailors.

5. Sailors' boats were lured onto the rocks by the sweet songs.

6. Ulysses adopts a plan!

7. Ulysses puts wax in the sailors' ears.

8. The sailors tie Ulysses to the mast.

9. Ulysses hears the mermaids' song but his men are safe.

authors choose a genre based on their purpose. fiction works well for teaching a lesson, as in fables. however, presenting facts and opinions in nonfiction might be a better way to present information. when authors begin to write, they think about what they want the reader to understand or experience. while fiction may be the best genre for storytelling, nonfiction may be the most clear for sharing facts, so both genres have merits.