100. Lupus Monachus. Lupus, in senium deductus, cum non amplius venari posset, sese religioni addixit, sumptoque monachi habitu, cibum ostiatim mendicabat. Reprehensus ab alio lupo, “Quid vis,” inquit, “faciam? Dentes deciderunt, currere non valeo, quare aliter vivere posse diffido.”
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image source) show the wolf as a would-be monk.
M0100 (not in Perry). Source: Abstemius 134. This fable is not in Perry’s catalog; Perry omitted most of Abstemius’s fables. Compare the fable of the cat who became a monk, #390.
