Phaedrus
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 36
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...are heaped upon (him) mortuo dead. Videtur it seems tibi to thee joculare o trifling (business): et and sane indeed ludimus we sport leve a light (subject) calamo with (our) pen, dum whilst habemus we have nihil majus nothing greater; sed but intuere look into has naenias these trivial verses diligenter diligently; quantam utilitatem how much usefulness reperies wilt thou find sub illis under them? Non sunt they are not semper always ea such, quae as videntur they seem: prima frons the first appearance decipit deceives multos many: rara mens few minds intelligit understand, quod what cura care condidit hath hid interiore angulo in an inner corner. Ne existimer that I may not be thought locutus to have said hoc this sine mercede without proqf, adjiciam / will add fabellam a short story de Mustela about the Weasel et and Muribus the Mice. Mustela a Weasel, cum when, debilis (being) debilitated annis by years et and senecta old age, non valeret she could not assequi catch veloces mures the swift mice, involuit rolled se herself farina in meal, et and abjecit threrv (herself) negligenter carelessly obscuro loco in a dusky place. Mus a Mouse, putans thinking (it) escam food, assiluit leaped to (her), et and compressus being seized occubuit neci t died: alter a second similiter in like manner periit perished, et and deinde then tertius a third. Aliquot secutis others having followed, venit there came et also retorridus an old wrinkled (Mouse), qui who saepe often effugerat had escaped laqueos the snares et and muscipula mousetraps: proculque and at a distance cernens espying insidias the ambush callidi hostis of the cunning enemy, inquit he says, sic valeas mayest thou be Literally: --withoutpay. f Literally: --fell upon death. as well, quae who.