Illustrated: Poeta et Agricola

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M0866 - M0867 - M0868

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867. Poeta et Agricola. Agricola quidam, ad poetam accedens cuius agros colebat, cum eum inter libros solum offendisset, interrogavit eum quo pacto ita solus vivere posset. Cui ille “Solus,” inquit, “tantum esse coepi, postquam te huc contulisti.”

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M0867 (not in Perry). Source: Abstemius 75. This fable is not in Perry’s catalog; Perry omitted most of Abstemius’s fables. Compare the fable of the swans and their solitude, #537.