Showing posts with label The Raven and the Little Fox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Raven and the Little Fox. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Flattered Out of His Cheese

This is very, very hard to read but still interesting.

From, A Latin Reader, by Frank Gallup, published 1913:

Corvus, qui alicunde caseum rapuerat, in altam arborem subvolavit. Vulpecula, quae caseum appetebat, corvum ita adloquitur: "Formam tuam magnopere laudo et pennarum tuarum nitorem. Pol! si cantus tuus pulchritudini tuae respondet, rex avium es." Tum corvus, laudibus vulpeculae inflatus, cantare conatus est. Sed e rostro aperto delapsus est caseus, quem vulpecula statim devoravit. Verba adulatorum sunt preti parvi, ut haec fabula docet.

Vocabulary:
1. Corvus, i: a raven.
2. Alicunde: from some place or other or some source or other.
3. Caseum: cheese..
4. Magnopere: greatly.
5. Conatus, us: attempt.
6. Sed: but, however.
7. Statim: immediately.
8. Devoro: devour. 
9. Penna, ae: feathers, wings. 

Notes from the book:
1. "Pol!" means, "By Pollux!"
2. "Vulpes, pis" means "fox", but "vulpecula" means "little fox".