12. Dionysius et Lacedaemonii

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Lacedaémone
cum tyránnus Dionýsius
cenáret
iuri illo nigro
(quod cenae caput erat)
mínime delectátus est.
Tum is
qui illud cóxerat,
"Mínime mirum;
condiménta enim defuérunt."
"Quae tandem?"
Inquit ille,
"Labor in venátu, sudor,
cursus ab Euróta, fames, sitis.
His enim rebus
Lacedaemoniórum épulae
condiúntur."

(image: Polish duck's blood soup, czernina, similar to Spartan black broth.)

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TEXT SOURCE: First Easy Latin Reading Book - Anecdotes, by Edmund Fowle (1877). Vocabulary Lists in back of book.

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