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Aesop's Fables in J&D Latin Reader

Fable 7. Capra et Lupus

Lupus
capram
in alta rupe stantem
conspicatus,
Cur non, inquit, relinquis
nuda illa et sterilia loca,
et huc descendis
in herbidos campos,
qui
tibi laetum pabulum offerunt?
Cui respondit capra:
Mihi non est in animo
dulcia tutis praeponere.



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.