Fabulae Aesopi selectae; or, Select fables of Aesop with an English translation more literal than any yet extent designed for the readier instruction of beginners in the Latin tongue
Aesop
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ... dog, who flattered his master with a murmur and his tail, by whom. he had been instructed for tfte /owling art Wtc£& mawy stripes and plucks of the ears: to wte the dog said, mad wretch, tftoa knottiest not what J Artre obtained from those stripes; for &y i&ose I am fed with the most siveat sibi non esse pellem ursi in prcesentid; caeterum postridie profecturum De Trabe increpante Pigritiam Boum. TRABS, qum vehebatur. eurru, increpabat boves, ut lentulos, dicens, pigri, currite, nam portatis leve onus: cui boves reaponderunt, irrides nos? Ignoras, qum poena manet te. Nos deponemus hoc onus citd: autem tum tu cogeris sustinere, quoad rumparis. Trabs indoluit, nec au$a est amplius lacessere boves conviciis. Mor. Haec fabula monet guemlibet, ne insultet calamitatibus aliorum, cum ipse possit subjici majoribus. yv....... 0/the Beam blaming the Slowness oftlie Oxen. A BEAM, wfticA was carried in a waggon, blamed the oxen, as slow, saying, ye slow wretches, run, for ye carry a light burden; to whorq. the oxen answered, dost thou laugh at us? Thou knowest not, what punishment awaits thee. We shall lay down this burden quickly: but then thou shall be forced to bear, until thou mayest be broken. The beam grieved, nor dared longer to provoke the oxen with revilings. FABLE CXVI. JDe Cardvele Sf PUEBO. Carduelis interrogata a puero, a quo fuerat habita suis deliciis, et nutrita suavibus cibis, cur egressa cavea nollet regredi, inquit, ut possim pascere meo arbitratu,wow tuo. Mor. Hxcfabula indicat, libertatem vitse anteponendam cunctis deliciis. Of a, Linnet and a Boy. A linnet being asked by a boy, by whom she had been held for his pleasure, and nourished with sweet meats, why having gone out of the cage she was unwilling to return, said, that J may ...