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Aesop's Fables in J&D Latin Reader

Fable 27. Lupus et Grus

In faucibus lupi
os inhaeserat.
Mercede igitur
conducit gruem,
qui illud extrahat.
Hoc
grus
longitudine colli
facile effecit.
Cum autem mercedem postularet,
subridens lupus
et dentibus infrendens,
Num tibi, inquit,
parva merces videtur,
quod caput
incolume
ex lupi faucibus extraxisti?


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.