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Aesop's Fables and Other Parables: Odo of Cheriton

47. DE SYMIA.
Perry

Applicatur nolenti sustinere aduersa.
Simia libenter comedit nucleum, quia dulcis est; sed, quando gustat de cortice amaritudinem, nucleum in interius relinquit et nucem proicit.
Sic est de stolidis hominibus, quia sub amaritudine pene presentis latet gaudium uite celestis. Sed stultus propter hanc amaritudinem, quia non uult ieiunare, uigilare nec aliquam amaritudinem sustinere, dimittit et amittit dulcedinem uite eterne. G[regorius]: Stultus mauult in perpetuum puniri quam ad tempus aliquid aduersitatis perpeti.


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!