Simplified Fable 79: De Sole et Vento

Now that I have finished the Segmented Grammar Commentaries on the fables (see the Complete Fables List for links), I'll be working through the fables again, this time providing "Simplified" versions of the fables. So, here is today's Simplified fable - De Sole et Vento, the story of the contest between the Sun and the Wind.

For more information about how these simplified versions of the fable can be useful to you, see this note about Simplified Fables at the Aesopus Ning.

Here is a Google Presentation version (larger version also available):



The original version is as follows:

Sol et Aquilo certabant uter sit fortior. Conventum est experiri vires in Viatorem, ut palmam ferat qui excusserit Viatoris manticam. Boreas horrisono turbine Viatorem aggreditur. At ille non desistit, amictum gradiendo duplicans. Assumit vires Sol qui, nimbo paulatim evicto, totos emolitur radios. Incipit Viator aestuare, sudare, anhelare. Tandem progredi nequiens, sub frondoso nemore, obiecta mantica, resedit et ita Soli victoria contingebat.

Here are the simplified sentences as they appear in the slideshow:

Sol fortis est.

Aquilo fortis est.

Quis est fortior?

Sol et Aquilo certabant uter sit fortior.

Conventum est:

"Experiamur vires!"

"Experiamur vires in Viatorem."

"Quis palmam feret?"

"Palmam ferat qui excusserit Viatoris manticam."

Conventum est experiri vires in Viatorem, ut palmam ferat qui excusserit Viatoris manticam.

Boreas Viatorem aggreditur.

Boreas turbine Viatorem aggreditur.

Boreas horrisono turbine Viatorem aggreditur.

Viator non desistit.

Viator non desistit gradiendo.

Viator amictum duplicat.

Viator non desistit gradiendo, amictum duplicans.

Sol vires assumit.

Sol nimbum evicit.

Nimbus evictus est.

Nimbus paulatim evictus est.

Sol emolitur radios.

Sol emolitur totos radios.

Sol totos emolitur radios.

Nimbo paulatim evicto, Sol totos emolitur radios.

Assumit vires Sol qui, nimbo paulatim evicto, totos emolitur radios.

Incipit Viator aestuare.

Incipit Viator aestuare, sudare.

Incipit Viator aestuare, sudare, anhelare.

Viator progredi nequiebat.

Viator manticam obiecit.

Mantica obiecta est.

Viator resedit.

Tandem Viator resedit.

Tandem Viator sub frondoso nemore resedit.

Tandem Viator sub frondoso nemore, obiecta mantica, resedit.

Tandem progredi nequiens, Viator sub frondoso nemore, obiecta mantica, resedit.

Soli victoria contingebat.

Ita Soli victoria contingebat.

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