March 14, 2011

6. Ova Aurea




Múlier quaedam
habébat gallínam,
quae
ei quotídie
ovum pariébat aúreum.
Hinc
suspicári coepit,
illam
auri massam celáre,
et gallínam occídit.
Sed nihil in ea réperit,
nisi quod
in áliis gallínis reperíri solet.
Ítaque
dum maióribus divítiis inhiábat,
étiam minóres pérdidit.

Ova Aurea

TEXT SOURCE: Selections from Latin Authors for Sight-Reading, by Everett Titsworth Tomlinson (1886). This book does not have a vocabulary list in the back.

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