Folk Tale

The Hungry Dogs

Translated From

Canes Famelici

AuthorPhaedrus
Book TitleFabulae Aesopiae
Publication Date41
LanguageLatin

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Text titleLanguageAuthorPublication Date
Le Chien affamésFrench__
TitleThe Hungry Dogs
Original TitleCanes Famelici
Original AuthorPhaedrus
Original IDtrans-7807.xml
Book AuthorC. Smart
Language codeeng

A stupid plan that fools project, Not only will not take effect, ut proves destructive in the end To those that bungle and pretend. Some hungry Dogs beheld an hide Deep sunk beneath the crystal tide, Which, that they might extract for food, They strove to drink up all the flood; But bursten in the desp'rate deed, They perish'd, ere they could succeed.


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