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Aesop's Fables and Other Parables: Odo of Cheriton

10. DE AQUILA.
Perry

Pro contemplationibus celestia. Amen.
Aquila, quando habet pullos, erigit capita sua ad solem. Pullum qui irreuerberatis radiis intuetur solem conseruat et nutrit; illum qui solem non potest respicere, extra nidum proicit.
Sic Dominus habet pullos in Ecclesia: illos qui sciunt Deum et ea que Dei sunt contemplari, nutrit et conseruat; illos qui nesciunt conspicere nisi terrena. proicit in tenebras exteriores.

The Latin text of Odo shown here is taken from Léopold Hervieux, Les fabulistes latins depuis le siècle d'Auguste jusqu'à la. fin du Moyen-Age (1893-1899). There is a delightful English translation of Odo by John Jacobs, which is still in print. It's a lovely book!