Aesop's Fables: Avianus
#12. de thesauro. (Perry 61)
Rusticus impresso molitus vomere terram
Thesaurum sulcis prosiluisse videt.
Mox indigna animo properante reliquit aratra,
Semina compellens ad meliora boves.
Continuo supplex Telluri construit aras,
Quae sibi depositas sponte dedisset opes.
Hunc Fortuna novis gaudentem provida rebus
Admonet, indignam se quoque ture dolens:
Nunc inventa rneis non prodis munera templis
Atque alios mavis participare deos
Sed cum surrepto fueris tristissimus auro,
Me primam lacrimis sollicitabis inops."
Latin text from Latin
Library (Ad Fontes), based on Léopold Hervieux, Les
fabulistes latins depuis le siècle d'Auguste jusqu'à la. fin
du Moyen-Age (1893-1899); supplemented by Latin text
at Bibliotheca
Augustana. Avianus is included in the Loeb volume for Minor Latin
Poets,
vol. 2, with the Latin text and a facing English translation.
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