Image: Scarabaei et Apes, Prandentes

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M0693 - M0694 - M0695

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694. Scarabaei et Apes, Prandentes. Apes semel invitaverunt scarabaeos ad prandium. Venerunt scarabaei, et, mensa posita, apposuerunt apes mel et favum. Scarabaei parum comederunt et avolaverunt. Iterum scarabaei invitaverunt apes; mensa posita, apposuerunt apibus fimum boum. Apes noluerunt gustare et recesserunt.

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M0694 (not in Perry). Source: Odo, Fable 32. This fable is not in Perry’s catalog; Perry was not systematic in his coverage of medieval sources. For another fable about a mismatched feast, see the story of the lion’s banquet, #17. For a story about a beetle who wanted to learn to make honey, see #693.