Eclecta Puerilia: Sententiae, Colloquia, Fabulae, et Poemata in usum Scholarum collecta
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Raine, Matthew
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1787
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A very enjoyable little book, with a somewhat damaged spine after over two hundred years! The opening aphorisms should not be overlooked. They come in alphabetical sets by number of words, first the two-word aphorisms (1-7), then the three-word (7-14), the four-word (15-17), and the longer-than-four-word (17-21). The eighty-one fables are on 46-95. I find them well done. Several elements are different: the dog in DS is swimming through the water (47); after the lion devours the ass, the fox makes just one pile of booty (52-3); the fox tells the crow that he is whiter than snow (64); the fox and the goat go into the well together (68). New to me is The Dog and the Lion (94-5), a story very similar to DW (here 92-3). Some morals are just too simple, like Obediant parentibus filii (52). Many morals fit their fables in questionable fashion: De Asino et Sene (64-5), De Leone senio confecto (65), De Vulpe et Aquila (67), De Hoedo et Lupo (72), De Fure et Cane (75-6), and De Tauro et Capro (80). I enjoyed reading this book, on the Metro and at my desk!
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Excudebat T. Saint apud T. & G. Wilkie, G. Charnley, R. Spence, J. Todd, T. Wilson, and W. Tesseyman
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2214 (Access ID)