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Aesop's Fables in J&D Latin Reader

Fable 29. Asinus et Equus

Asinus
equum beatum praedicabat,
qui tam copiose pasceretur,
cum sibi
post molestissimos labores
ne paleae quidem
satis praeberetur.
Forte autem
bello exorto,
equus in proelium agitur,
et circumventus ab hostibus,
post incredibiles labores tandem,
multis vulneribus confossus,
collabitur.
Haec omnia
asinus conspicatus,
O me stolidum, inquit,
qui
beatitudinem
ex praesentis temporis fortuna
aestimaverim!


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.