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Fabulae Selectae Fontanii e Gallico in Latinum Sermonem Conversae
(Lud. Le Boucher et Laurent. Duesnil, 1775)
What a kick! This book contains virtually all of La Fontaine's fables done into Latin for schoolboys by a priest of the Oratory. I have tried a few of the fables, and the Latin is good! Since the text is bilingual, one ...
Fabulae Selectae Fontanii e Gallico in Latinum Sermonem Conversae
(Laurent DumesnilLud. Le Boucher et Laurent. Duesnil, 1775)
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 ...