Folk Tale

The Bull and the Calf

Translated From

Taurus et Vitulus

AuthorPhaedrus
Book TitleFabulae Aesopiae
Publication Date41
LanguageLatin

Other Translations / Adaptations

Text titleLanguageAuthorPublication Date
Le Taureau et le VeauFrench__
AuthorC. Smart
Book TitleThe Fables of Phaedrus
Publication Date1887
LanguageEnglish
OriginItaly

A Bull was struggling to secure His passage at a narrow door, And scarce could reach the rack of hay, His horns so much were in his way. A Calf officious, fain would show How he might twist himself and go. "Hold thou thy prate; all this," says he, Ere thou wert calved was known to me." He, that a wiser man by half Would teach, may think himself this Calf.


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