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Fable 24. Mures

Mures
aliquando habuerunt consilium,
quomodo
a fele caverent.
Multis aliis propositis,
omnibus placuit,
ut ei tintinnabulum annecteretur:
sic enim ipsos,
sonitu admonitos,
eam fugere posse.
Sed
cum iam inter mures quaereretur,
qui
feli tintinnabulum annecteret,
nemo repertus est.
Fabula docet,
in suadendo plurimos
esse audaces,
sed in ipso periculo
timidos.


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.