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Aesop's Fables in J&D Latin Reader

Fable 22. Vulpes et Uva

Vulpes
uvam in vite conspicata,
ad illam subsiliit
omnium virium suarum contentione,
si eam
forte attingere posset.
Tandem
defatigata inani labore,
discedens dixit:
At nunc etiam acerbae sunt,
nec eas
in via repertas
tollerem.
Haec fabula docet,
multos
ea contemnere,
quae
se assequi posse
desperent.


The first image comes from The First Part of Jacobs & Doering's Latin Reader by E.A. Andrews (1857). The second image comes from Via Latina: An Easy Latin Reader by William C. Collar (1897). Available online at Google Books.