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 text is a poem written in elegaic couplets.
| Est lupus, est agnus: sitit hic, sitit ille, fluentum limite non uno querit uterque siti. |
querit = quaerit siti, s.v. sitis (ablative) |
| what were the wolf and lamb doing at the stream? | |
| In summo bibit amne lupus, bibit agnus in imo. |
amne, s.v. amnis lupus bibit in summo amne agnus bibit in imo (amne) |
| where were they standing exactly? | |
| Hunc timor impugnat verba movente lupo: "Rupisti potumque mihi rivoque decorem." |
timor impugnat hunc (agnum) |
| what did the wolf accuse the lamb of doing? | |
| Agnus utrumque negat se ratione tuens: "Nec tibi nec rivo nocui: nam prona supinum nescit iter nec adhuc unda nitore caret." |
nocui, s.v. noceo (takes dative) tuens, s.v. tueor (in the sense of guard, protect, look out for) caret, s.v. careo (takes ablative) nitore, s.v. nitor |
| how did the lamb respond to the wolf's accusation? | |
| Sic iterum tonat ore lupus: "Mihi damna minaris?" |
ore, s.v. os damna: neuter accusative plural minaris, s.v. minor (deponent verb) |
| what did the wolf say in reply? | |
| "Non minor," agnus ait. | minor, s.v. minor (deponent verb) |
| how did the lamb respond to this accusation? | |
| Cui lupus: "Immo facis; Fecit idem tuus ante pater sex mensibus actis: Cum bene patrisses, crimine patris obi." |
ante: adverbial (in tempore anteriore) |
| what is the wolf's third accusation against the lamb? | |
| Agnus ad hec: "Tanto non vixi tempore." |
hec = haec vixi, s.v. vivo |
| how does the lamb refute this accusation? | |
| Predo sic tonat: "An loqueris, furcifer?" huncque vorat. |
predo = praedo (nominative, subject of tonat) loqueris, s.v. loquor (lupus) vorat hunc (agnum) |
| what did the wolf do in the end? | |
| Sic nocet innocuo nocuus, causamque nocendi invenit. Hi regnant qualibet urbe lupi. |
(the moral of the story) hi lupi regnant (in) qualibet urbe |
| what is the moral of the story? |
Here is the fable in verse form:
Est lupus, est agnus: sitit hic, sitit ille, fluentum
...Limite non uno querit uterque siti.
In summo bibit amne lupus, bibit agnus in imo.
...Hunc timor impugnat verba movente lupo:
"Rupisti potumque mihi rivoque decorem."
...Agnus utrumque negat se ratione tuens:
"Nec tibi nec rivo nocui: nam prona supinum
...Nescit iter nec adhuc unda nitore caret."
Sic iterum tonat ore lupus: "Mihi damna minaris?"
..."Non minor," agnus ait. Cui lupus: "Immo facis;
Fecit idem tuus ante pater sex mensibus actis:
...Cum bene patrisses, crimine patris obi."
Agnus ad hec: "Tanto non vixi tempore." Predo
...Sic tonat: "An loqueris, furcifer?" huncque vorat.
Sic nocet innocuo nocuus, causamque nocendi
...Invenit. Hi regnant qualibet urbe lupi.
Aesopus,
1505 (University of Mannheim; more information)
