You can also find an illustration of this fable from a book of Aesop's fables published in 1501.
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Perdix |
dum
+ subjunctive eminentiori, s.v. eminens (comparative adjective) |
| where was the partridge when the fox came by? | |
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Quam formosa est facies tua, |
facies, s.v. facies (noun) crura, s.v. crus pulchrior, s.v. pulcher (comparative adjective) |
| what does the fox want the partridge to do? | |
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Credens ei |
vulpis rapuit eam (perdicem) |
| how did the fox catch the partridge? | |
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At perdix |
per: preposition + accusative (virtutes) antea: temporal adverb |
| what did the partridge ask the fox to do? | |
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At ubi vulpis |
nominare perdicem (to say the name "partridge") os: neuter accusative evasit, s.v. evado |
| how did the partridge get away? | |
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Dolens vulpis ait: |
opus: takes infinitive (loqui) |
| why did the fox feel stupid? | |
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Respondit perdix: |
necesse: takes infinitive (dormire) |
| why did the partridge feel stupid? | |
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Qui, |
(the moral of the story) [fabula dicta est hominibus] qui ... loquuntur et... dormiunt oportet: takes acc. + inf. (oportet eos vigilare) |
| what is the moral of the story? |
Aesopus,
1505 (University of Mannheim; more information)
