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M0538 = Perry004. Source: Abstemius 92. This is Perry 4. Compare the fable of the fisherman and the little fish, #580.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Illustrated: Luscinia et Accipiter
538. Luscinia et Accipiter. Luscinia, ab accipitre famelico comprehensa, cum se ab eo devorandam intellegeret, blande eum rogabat ut se dimitteret, pollicita pro tanto beneficio ingentem mercedem sese relaturam. Cum autem accipiter eam interrogaret quid gratiae sibi referre posset, “Aures,” inquit, “tuas mellifluis cantibus demulcebo.” “At ego,” inquit accipiter, “malo mihi ventrem demulceas. Sine tuis enim cantibus vivere; sine cibo non possum.”
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