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Libellus 7: Formica et Cicada

 

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Formica et Cicada (Latin)

Formica et Cicada: The Ant and The Grasshopper (Latin and English) 

Formica et Cicada: Repetite!

 

Formica et Cicada by Caspar Barth (paraphrase in Latin)

Formica et Cicada - The Ant and The Grasshopper by Caspar Barth (paraphrase in Latin and English)

Formica et Cicada by Caspar Barth (iambic dimeter catalectic - feet marked)

Formica et Cicada by Caspar Barth (iambic dimeter catalectic - feet unmarked)

 

Formica et Cicada by Alexander Nequam (paraphrase in Latin)

Formica et Cicada by Alexander Nequam (paraphrase in Latin and English)

Formica et Cicada by Alexander Nequam (elegiac couplets)

 

Resources

 

Vocabula: Latin-English (not for the poem; just for the simple fable in prose)

Perry 373: Other Latin versions, English versions, and illustrations

 


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Formíca et Cicáda by Laura Gibbs

Ecce Formíca!

Formíca negotiósa est, et prudens.

In aestáte, Formíca labórat, cólligens fruméntum.

Colléctum fruméntum trahit in cavérnam suam.

Cibum repónit in aestáte, ut cómedat in híeme.

Ecce Cicáda!

Cicáda otiósa est, et imprúdens.

In aestáte, Cicáda cantat, et non labórat.

Sed mox tempus híemis ádvenit cum magno frígore.

Formíca in cavérna sua manet, cómedens cibum suum.

Sed Cicáda cibum non habet.

Auxílium quaerens, Cicáda venit ad Formícae iánuam.

Famélica Cicáda clamat:

"O Formíca, te implóro: da mihi cibum!"

"Cópiam habes tu, et ego nihil."

"Fame iam moritúra sum!"

Sed Formíca Cicádam intérrogat:

"Ego tota aestáte laborábam, cólligens fruméntum.

"Dum ego sic laborábam, quid agébas tu?"

Cicáda respóndet:

"Per flores errábam, et per grámina."

"Cármina cantábam ómnibus, gratis."

"Hoc erat mihi opus aestívum."

Formíca ridet et iánuam claudit:

"Si aestáte cantábas híeme nunc salta!"

Fábula docet:

Sine labóre, non erit panis in ore.

 

Formīca et Cicāda by Caspar Barth

Cicāda cum canendō

Trīvisset omne tempus

Aptum penū parandō,

Hieme ingruente coepit

Vīctu carēre. Sed cum

Inaudiisset esse

Formīcam eo adfluentem

Ad eam profecta, coepit

Orāre pasceret sē.

Formīca parca, quid nam

Aestāte factitāsset

Rogāre, quō minus sē

Hiemī cibō ingruenti

Obmūnīvisset? illa

Cantāsse sē professa est.

Nunc ergō, cantilēnīs

Saltēs licet, peractīs.

Rēspondit, in cavumque

Formīca rētrōversa est.

 

Formīca et Cicāda by Alexander Nequam

Formīcam brūmā nārrātur adīsse Cicāda,

  Ut sibi frūmenti paucula grāna daret.

Illa refert: "Cūr nōn sūdandō, tempore messis,

  Haec tibi quaesīstī quae modo grāna petis?"

Rēspondēns: "Cantāns per amoena virēta vagābar;

  Cantandī requiēs nōn erat ulla mihi."

Hinc Formīca refert: "Cantāstī tunc, modo saltā;

  Nam sine tē comedam parta labōre meō."

 

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