Also, you can find an illustration of this fable from a book of Aesop's fables, together with the Latin text, as printed in 1501. The fable is a poem written in elegaic couplets.
Equari vult rana bovi: |
equari = aequari, s.v. aequo bovi, s.v. bos |
what did the frog want to do? | |
Tumenti natus ait: "Cessa; pre bove tota nihil." |
natus = filius natus ait tumenti (matri, ranae) pre = prae tu tota es nihil prae bove |
what did the frog's child say to her? | |
Rana dolet meliusque tumet; premit ille tumentem: |
ille = natus ille (natus) premit (matrem) tumentem |
what did the frog do? | |
"Vincere non poteris, victa crepare potes." |
victa, s.v. vinco |
what did the frog's child say to her now? | |
Tertius iratam vexat tumor; illa tumoris copia findit eam: viscera rupta patent. |
tumor vexat iratam (ranam) illa copia tumoris findit eam (ranam) |
what happened to the frog in the end? | |
Cum maiore minor conferri desinat et se consulat et vires temperet ipse suas. |
[the moral of the story] |
what is the moral of the story? |
Here is the fable in verse form:
Equari vult rana bovi: tumet ergo. Tumenti
...Natus ait: "Cessa; pre bove tota nihil."
Rana dolet meliusque tumet; premit ille tumentem:
..."Vincere non poteris, victa crepare potes."
Tertius iratam vexat tumor; illa tumoris
...Copia findit eam: viscera rupta patent.
Cum maiore minor conferri desinat et se
...Consulat et vires temperet ipse suas.
Aesopus,
1505 (University of Mannheim; more information)