Aranea in hirundinem excandescit:
"Hirundinem odi!
Capit muscas,
quas comedo ego!"
Aranea igitur
retia in foribus suspendit,
ubi hirundo volitare solet.
Aranea sibi dicit,
"Hoc modo,
hirundinem capere possum!"
Hirundo advolat,
sed retia hirundinem non capiunt:
hirundo retia per aera portat,
cum aranea textrice!
Tunc aranea,
in aere pendens, dicit,
"Sane intellego:
iamiam peritura sum,
et iuste haec patior!
Ego, magno labore,
volatilia minima vix capio,
aves vero tam magnas
numquam comprehendere possum."
This story is based on 662. Aranea et Hirundo.
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aranea - spider
et - and
hirundo - swallow (bird)
in - in, into
excandesco - catch fire, burn with anger
odi - hate
capio - grab, catch
musca- fly (insect)
qui - who, which, that
comedo - eat, consume
ego - I
igitur
therefore
rete - net, web
foris - door, fate
suspendo - hang, suspend
ubi - where
volito - fly, flutter, flitter
soleo - be in the habit of, be accustomed to
se - reflexive pronoun
dico - say
hic - this
modus - measure, manner, way
possum - can, be able
advolo - fly to, fly into
sed - but
non - not, no
per - through
aer - air
porto - carry
cum - with, together with
textrix - weaver
tunc - then
pendeo - hang, hang down
sane - certainly, truly, of course
intellego - understand
iamiam - now, already
pereo - perish, die
et - and
iuste - rightly, with good reason
patior - suffer, undergo
magnus - great, large, big
labor - work, effort, hard work
volatilis - flying, something that flies
minimus - small, tiny
vix - scarcely, barely
avis - bird
vero - in fact
tam - so
numquam - never
comprehendo - grasp, grab, seize
possum - be able, can
M0662 (not in Perry)
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