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M0450 = Perry472. Source: Heidelberg 13. This is Perry 472. Compare the fable of the bee who wanted to take life easy, #674.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Illustrated: Graculus et Pavones
450. Graculus et Pavones. Graculus aliquando pennis quae pavoni exciderant se ornaverat. Contemnit nunc suos seque immiscet pavonum gregi. Hi autem impudenti avi pennas rostris eripiunt et fugant. Tum graculus tristis ad suum genus revertitur. Sed ab hoc quoque repellitur, atque unus ex iis quos prius contempserat dixit, “Si contentus fuisses sedibus nostris, illam contumeliam expertus non esses.”
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