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Aesop's Fables: Steinhowel6.17. De viro agriculturo [See an illustration from a 1501 edition.] Labor assiduus thesaurum parit. De hoc audi fabulam. Homo quidam agricultor existens cum finem vite sibi adesse cognosceret cupiensque filios in agrorum cultu fieri peritos, eos vocavit atque inquit: Filii, ego e vita decedo, bona mea in vinea consita sunt omnia. Illi post patris obitum putantes in vinea thesaurum reperire, assumptis ligonibus, marris ac bidentibus vineam funditus effodiunt, nullumque thesaurum invenerunt. Verum enim vinea cum probe effossa foret, longe plus solito fructus produxit atque illos divites fecit. Ita significatur hac fabula, laborem assiduum thesaurum parere. Steinhowels Asop, ed. Hermann Osterley (1873). Some of these fables have digitized text; others have only page images. The digital page images are from Google Books. You can also consult the illustrated 1501 edition of Steinhowel's Aesop. Note that Book 7 contains poems from Avianus, so there is no text or page image for the fables in Book 7. |
