Fabulae Selectae Fontanii e Gallico in Latinum Sermonem Conversae

Abstract

See my overall comments on the first volume. From the last six books of La Fontaine, these fables are left out: the daughter who rejects suitors and finally desperately accepts a lout (VII 5); Thyrsis who tries to profess his love for Amaranth, only to have her identify her feelings for Clidament with his feelings for her (VIII 13); the mouse metamorphosed into a girl and seeking a worthy spouse (IX 7); the wife who at last jumps into her husband's arms only because of a thief (IX 15); the new son of Jupiter, in whom love transforms all other gifts (XI 2); the wife-beating monkey (XII 19); and Alcimadura paying love's revenge for having been hard on Daphnis (XII 24). You can be sure that theMatron of Ephesus is not included here! This volume puts two levels of errata on 576-7 after a bilingual T of C on 565-75. Full leather. Octavo. Small designs at the beginning of books and the end of fables.