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M0515 = Perry202. Source: Irenaeus 126. This is Perry 202. For the story of the hen who loses her chicks to her human owners, see #647.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Illustrated: Columba et Cornix
515. Columba et Cornix. Columba domestica, singulis mensibus pullos aut ova excludens, de fecunditate sua insolenter gloriabatur, audiente ac vidente de proximo cornicula. Quae non inscite ad eam “Desine, soror,” ait, “gloriari; quanto enim fecundior es, tanto mihi videris infortunatior, aliis pariens, non tibi.”
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