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LaFontaine in Latin Prose

 

There are many translations of LaFontaine into Latin apparently, but I have not been able to find one online. I was, however, able to find this lovely little Latin textbook for second-year Latin students with 50 fables of LaFontaine in prose, prepared by Frank Gardner and published in 1915. The Latin texts come with macrons and special punctuation to make the texts easier to read, and there are extensive notes in the back of the book:

 

1. cicada et formica.

2. rana et bos.

3. de vulpe et uva.

4. muli duo.

5. lupus et ciconia.

6. vas fictile et vas ferreum.

7. leo ab homine occisus.

8. leo senex.

9. gallus et vulpes.

10. quercus et calamus.

11. pisciculus et piscator.

12. corvus et vulpes.

13. gallus et margarita.

14. vulpes et ciconia.

15. canis qui praedam omisit.

16. gallina quae aurea ova ponebat.

17. asinus in pelle leonis.

18. leo et mus, columba et formica.

19. camelus et ligna natantia.

20. serpens et lima.

21. cervus et vitis.

22. lupus qui pastoris agit partes.

23. lepus et ranae.

24. leo et asinus.

25. vulpes et caput marmareum.

26. lupus et canis.

27. equus et asinus.

28. vulpes et caper.

29. ranae regem petunt.

30. mors et senex.

31. lepus et testudo.

32. vulpex ac lupus et equus.

33. agricola ac filii eius.

34. asinus qui res sacras portabat.

35. senex et filii eius.

36. sutor et argentarius.

37. faeles senior et mus parvulus.

38. mus et ostrea.

39. rustica cum mulctro lactis.

40. litigatores et ostrea.

41. asinus et catellus.

42. raeda publica et musca.

43. lupus et agnus.

44. sol et ranae.

45. lupus et canis macer.

46. faeles mas et mus senex.

47. alauda pullique eius et agri dominus.

48. pistor filiusque et asinus.

49. Phoebus et Boreas.

50. quo modo animalia pestilentia laboraverint.

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