A stag having fled into an oxen stableAt first was warned by themTo seek better shelter elsewhere.'Brothers,' said he to them, 'do not bet...
Jupiter had a farm to rent And bade Mercury have people present Themselves upon the appointed day; To make their offers and see what may. Things went ...
An Old Man and his Ass were riding one dayAnd spied a lush meadow at the side of the way.The man let go the reins and the grizzled* one racedOut into ...
A vain stag saw himself reflectedWhile standing in a crystal pool.His antlers like a thicket spreadBut when he looked below he ruedThe sight of his na...
The day the tyrant married, his subjects celebrated.They feasted and drank jugs of wine,But only Aesop could divineThat they had little cause to be el...
Aesop tells of a peasantCharitable, but not too wiseOne winter's day was travelingAround the land he tended.He saw a serpent stretched out in the ...
People fool ourselves in this world;Chasing after shadowsSo numerous are they that often,We cannot count the number.Let us look at the dog of which Ae...
FAR down in the forest, where the warm sun and the freshair made a sweet resting-place, grew a pretty little fir-tree;and yet it was not happy, it wis...
THE flax was in full bloom; it had pretty little blueflowers as delicate as the wings of a moth, or even more so.The sun shone, and the showers watere...
THERE was once a king's son who had a larger and morebeautiful collection of books than any one else in the world,and full of splendid copper-plat...