Aesop 019: The Fox & the Goat

【1】 Rusco ar Naico

  

► The Fox & the Goat

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【3】 Rusco lanantë mina tampo, ar anahtai lánes amnúra, túves i únes polë uþë ata.

                

► A Fox fell into a well, and though it was not very deep, he found that he could not get out again.

¶ Epeni naiénes tampossë voronna, soica Naico tullë arë.

         

► After he had been in the well a long time, a thirsty Goat came by.

¶ I Naico sannë í Rusco nuiénë yuliën, ar san maquentë quima i nén nánë mára.

                

► The Goat thought the Fox had gone down to drink, and so he asked if the water was good.

【4】 “I arimára quanna nóreo,” equë i curwa Rusco, “á capë mina ar á tyaþë sa.

                 

► "The finest in the whole country," said the crafty Fox, "jump in and try it.

¶ Ea han faren laca, yúyu inquen.”

       

► There is more than enough for both of us."

【5】 I soica Naico ú-pusto campë mina ar yesentë yulë.

         

► The thirsty Goat immediately jumped in and began to drink.

¶ I Rusco imandë lintië campë i Naicova cattanna ar campë i Naicovat rasseto mentello et i tampollo.

                 

► The Fox just as quickly jumped on the Goat's back and leaped from the tip of the Goat's horns out of the well

【6】 I auca Naico sí cennë mana raxenna mittaniénes, ar inques i Rusquen aþya se uþë.

                

► The foolish Goat now saw what a plight he had got into, and begged the Fox to help him out.

¶ Mal i Rusco tensi nánë menyassë taurenna.

       

► But the Fox was already on his way to the woods

【7】 “Quíta haryal ta laca sanar ve haryal fanga, enwina hanu,” eques lan nornes, “cé ambë ríþiévanelyë tuvië lé uþiën ata nó capë mina.”

                          

► "If you had as much sense as you have beard, old fellow," he said as he ran, "you would have been more cautious about finding a way to get out again before you jumped in."

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【9】 Eques: Á tirë nó capë.

      

► Motto: Look before you leap.