Canis per fluvium carnem ferens
Canis per fluvium carnem ferens (English: the dog that carries meat through the river ) is the fable I 4 of the Roman poet Phaedrus , who published his fables in five books. Phaedrus wrote a large part of his fables based on those of the Greek poet Aesop . The fables are written in a simple meter, the iambic senar .
The fable
The Latin original | translation |
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Canis per fluvium carnem |
The dog that carries meat across the river. |
interpretation
The dog desires something he already has. There is no longer any need to attain, yet he tries and loses everything. It follows from this: Be satisfied with what you have and do not desire more than you need .
literature
- Johann Ulrich Krausen, J. v. Vianen: Aesopian Fables. (Phaedrus) Kraus, Augsburg 1716, OCLC 258097612 .
- HJ Kerler: Roman fable poets. In: Roman poets in new metric translations . Vols 24-26. Stuttgart 1838, OCLC 604181775 , pp. 98/99.
- Johannes Siebelis: Tirocinium poeticum. Teubner, Berlin 1917, p. 22.
Web links
- The dog and the piece of meat on uni-mannheim.de (fable with images)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 4. The dog with the flesh. (PDF; 2.1 MB) In: Johannes Siebelis: Tirocinium poeticum. Teubner, Berlin 1917, p. 22.
- ↑ Phaedri Avgvsti Liberti Fabvlarvm Aesopiarvm Liber Primvs - Canis per Fluvium Carnem Ferens on thelatinlibrary.com, accessed on November 29, 2013.
- ^ HJ Kerler: Roman fable poets. P. 100. Stuttgart 1838, ( online ).