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Aesop's Fables in J&D Latin Reader

Fable 9. Canis et Boves

Canis
iacebat in praesepi
bovesque
latrando
a pabulo arcebat.
Cui unus boum,
Quanta ista, inquit, invidia est,
quod non pateris,
ut eo cibo vescamur,
quem
tu ipse
capere nec velis nec possis!
Haec fabula
invidiae indolem declarat.


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.