Aesop's Fables: Steinhowel
6.17. De viro agriculturo
(Perry 42)
[See an illustration from a 1501 edition.]
Labor assiduus thesaurum parit. De hoc audi fabulam. Homo quidam
agricultor existens cum finem vite sibi adesse cognosceret cupiensque
filios in agrorum cultu fieri peritos, eos vocavit atque inquit: Filii,
ego e vita decedo, bona mea in vinea consita sunt omnia. Illi post patris
obitum putantes in vinea thesaurum reperire, assumptis ligonibus, marris
ac bidentibus vineam funditus effodiunt, nullumque thesaurum invenerunt.
Verum enim vinea cum probe effossa foret, longe plus solito fructus produxit
atque illos divites fecit. Ita significatur hac fabula, laborem assiduum
thesaurum parere.
Steinhowels Asop, ed. Hermann Osterley (1873). Some of these fables have digitized text; others have only page images. The digital page images are from Google Books. You can also consult the illustrated 1501 edition of Steinhowel's Aesop. Note that Book 7 contains poems from Avianus, so there is no text or page image for the fables in Book 7. |