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Aesop's Fables in J&D Latin Reader

Fable 5. Pavo

Pavo
graviter conquerebatur
apud Junonem, dominam suam,
quod
vocis suavitas
sibi negata esset
dum luscinia,
avis tam parum decora,
cantu excellat.
Cui Juno,
Et merito, inquit;
non enim
omnia bona
in unum conferri
oportuit.

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.