Friday, February 11, 2011

Image: Sus et Canis Venaticus


M0343 - M0344 - M0345
344. Sus et Canis Venaticus. Sus irridebat canem odorisequum, qui domino murmure et cauda adularetur, a quo ad artem aucupatoriam multis verberibus auriumque vellicationibus fuerat instructus. Cui canis “Nescis, inquit, “insane, quae ex verberibus illis sim consecutus? Per ea enim suavissimis perdicum coturnicumque carnibus vescor.”



M0344 (not in Perry). Source: Abstemius 41. This fable is not in Perry’s catalog; Perry omitted most of Abstemius’s fables. For another story about animal education, see the story of the two horses, #267.