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Fable 30. Agricola et Filii

Agricola senex,
cum
mortem sibi appropinquare
sentiret,
filios convocavit,
quos, ut fieri solet,
interdum discordare noverat,
et fascem virgularum afferri
jubet.
Quibus allatis,
filios hortabatur,
ut hunc fascem frangerent.
Quod
cum facere non possent,
distribuit singulis singulas virgas,
iisque celeriter fractis,
docuit illos,
quam firma res esset concordia,
quamque imbecillis discordia.



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.