Thursday, September 30, 2010

Illustrated: Carbonarius et Fullo


M0862 - M0863 - M0864

863. Carbonarius et Fullo. Carbonarius, qui spatiosam habebat domum, invitavit fullonem ut ad se commigraret. Ille respondit, “Quaenam inter nos esse possit societas, cum tu vestes, quas ego nitidas reddidissem, fuligine et maculis inquinaturus esses?”

Fullo et Carbonarius

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M0863 = Perry029. Source: Jacobs & Doering 18. This is Perry 29. For another fable about incompatibility, see #488.