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XXXVI. DE VITULO ET BOVE<br />

Pulcher et intacta vitulus cervice resultans<br />

Scindentem adsidue viderat arva bovem.<br />

Non pudet, heus, inquit, longaevo vincula collo<br />

Ferre nec haec positis ocia nosse iugis.<br />

Cum mihi subiectas pateat discursus in herbas<br />

Et nemorum liceat rursus opaca sequi?<br />

At senior, nullam verbis compulsus in iram,<br />

Vertebat solidam vomere fessus humum,<br />

Donec deposito per prata liceret aratro<br />

Molliter herboso procubuisse thoro.<br />

Mox vitulum sacris innexum respicit aris<br />

Admotum cultro comminus ire popae.<br />

Hanc tibi tristis, ait, dedit indulgentia mortem,<br />

Expertem nostri quae facit esse iugi.<br />

Proderit ergo graves quamvis perferre labores,<br />

Otia quam tenerum mox peritura pati.<br />

Est hominum sors ista, magis felicior ut mors<br />

Sit cita, cum miseris vita diurna negat.<br />

XXXVII. DE LEONE ET CANE<br />

Pinguior exhausto canis occurrisse leoni<br />

Fertur, et insertis verba dedisse iocis.<br />

Nonne vi<strong>des</strong> duplici tendantur ut ilia tergo<br />

Luxurietque toris nobile pectus, ait?<br />

Proximus humanis ducor post ocia mensis,<br />

Communem capiens largius ore cibum.<br />

Sed quod crassa malum circumdat guttura ferrum?<br />

Ne custodita fas sit abire domo.<br />

At tu magna diu moribundus lustra pererras,<br />

Donec se silvis obvia praeda ferat.<br />

Perge igitur nostris tua subdere colla catenis,<br />

Dum liceat faciles promeruisse dapes.<br />

Protinus ille gravem gemuit collectus in iram<br />

Atque ferox animi, nobile murmur agit.<br />

Vade, ait, et meritis nodum cervicibus infer,<br />

Compensentque tuam vincula dura famem.<br />

At mea cum vacuis libertas redditur antris,<br />

Quamvis ieiunus quelibet arva peto.<br />

Has illis epulas potius laudare memento,<br />

Qui libertatem post posuere gulae."<br />

XXXVIII. DE PISCE ET FOCIS (sic)<br />

Fables<br />

Fables d'Avianus (en latin) 320

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