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Aesop's Fables in J&D Latin Reader

Fable 28. Agricola et Anguis

Agricola
anguem reperit,
frigore paene exstinctum.
Misericordia motus,
eum fovit sinu
et subter alas recondidit.
Mox anguis recreatus
vires recepit,
et agricolae,
pro beneficio,
letale vulnus inflixit.
Haec fabula docet
qualem mercedem
mali
pro beneficiis
reddere soleant.


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.