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Negotiator in via cum asino festinat.
Nundinas festinat, lucri causa.
Negotiator dominus saevus est,
et asinum multis mercibus onerat.
Onustum asinum flagello caedit
et baculo crudele tundit.
"Citius veni!" clamat negotiator,
asinum caedens et tundens.
Asinus miser sibi cogitat,
"Vita mea miserimma est,
et dominus meus crudelissimus.
Dominus me flagello caedit et baculo tundit.
Sed post mortem securus ero.
Post mortem requiescam in pace."
Flagello et baculo quassatus, asinus moritur.
Sed post mortem... asinus securus non est.
Asinus non requiescit in pace.
De pelle asini facta sunt tympana!
Asinus miser, qui tunditur semper in vita,
semper et post mortem tunditur.
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Here is the version of the fable in Mille Fabulae et Una:
Mille Fabulae et Una: 245. Asinus et Tympana.
Negotiator in via cum asello festinabat nundinas. Onusto asino male flagello et fuste caedebat ut citius posset venire lucri causa. Asellus sperabat ut post mortem esset securus; quassatus, moritur. De pelle eius facta sunt tympana et cribra, quae semper battuntur, et qui putabat post mortem esse securus, post mortem caeditur.
And here is an English version of the fable. This is not a translation; it's another version of the same story in 100 English words.
100-Words: Death and the Donkey
And here is an English version of the fable. This is not a translation; it's another version of the same story in 100 English words.
100-Words: Death and the Donkey
There was a donkey who led a miserable life, and after years of wretched labor, he finally implored Death to deliver him.
Death did come, but not with the deliverance that the donkey expected.
"My poor donkey," said Death, "I am here to take your life, and I also have bad news for you: after your death, the humans are going to take the skin from your dead body and make that skin into a drum. So, just as they beat you in life, so too they will beat you in death."
That was the fate of the poor donkey.
