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Aesop's Fables in J&D Latin Reader

Fable 51. Cancer

Mare cancer olim deseruit, in littore
Pascendi cupidus. Vulpes hunc simul adspici,
Jejuna, simul accurrit, et praedam capit.
Nae, dixit ille, jure plector, qui, salo
Quum fuerim natus, voluerim solo ingredi!
Suus unicuique praefinitus est locus,
Quem praeterire sine periclo non licet.


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.