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Vulpes et Lupus et PIsces

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The story of The Fox and The Wolf Going Fishing is adapted from a fable by Odo of Cheriton.

You can find this poem, Odo 74, along with other stories by Odo, at the aesopica.net website.

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Haec fabula
applicatur avaris
quos quisque decipit
et eis
qui nimis se tradunt
deliciis.
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Lupus
obvians Vulpi ait:
Compater, unde venis?
Et ait Vulpes:
De quodam vivario,
ubi pisces optimos cepi
et sufficienter comedi.
Quaesivit Lupus:
Quomodo cepisti? 		 
Ait Vulpes:
Caudam
in aquam posui,
et diu tenui, 		 
et pisces
credentes
quod esset aliquid comestibile,
caudae adhaeserunt,
et traxi eos ad terram
et comedi.		  
Et ait Lupus:
Numquid sic ego
pisces capere possum? 		 
Ait Vulpes:
Optime poteris,
cum sis fortior
quam ego.
Perrexit ergo Lupus
festinanter
ad vivarium,
et caudam
in aquam posuit
et diu tenuit,
donec esset congelata, 		 
gelu enim faciebat.  
Post longam moram
voluit caudam extrahere,
credens
quod multitudo piscium
ei adhaereret;
sed non potuit
propter gelicidium
quod caudam tenuit. 		 
Detentus est ibi
usque mane. 		 
Et venerunt homines
et Lupum
fere usque ad mortem
fustigaverunt.
Et cum vix evasisset,
maledixit compatri suo, 		 
qui pisces sibi promisit
et uerbera et uulnera
et fere mortem
persolvit. 		 
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