M0800 (not in Perry). Source: Abstemius 2. This fable is not in Perry’s catalog; Perry omitted most of Abstemius’s fables. Compare the fable of wishes gone wrong in the story of the farmer and the dwarf, #811.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Illustrated: Ceres et Rusticus
800. Ceres et Rusticus. Impetraverat a Cerere rusticus quidam, ut triticum absque aristis nasceretur, ne metentium triturantiumque manus laederet. Quod ubi maturuit, a minutis avibus depastum est. Tum rusticus “Quam digna,” inquit, “patior, qui, parvae commoditatis causa, emolumenta quam maxima perdidi.”
