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Aesop's Fables in J&D Latin Reader

Fable 4. Grus et Pavo

Pavo
coram grue
pennas suas explicans,
Quanta est, inquit,
formositas mea
et tua deformitas!
At grus evolans,
Et quanta est, inquit,
levitas mea
et tua tarditas!
Monet haec fabula,
ne ob aliquod bonum,
quod nobis natura tribuit,
alios contemnamus
quibus natura
alia
et fortasse maiora
dedit.

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.