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Ecce stagnum;
stagnum magnum est.
In hoc stagno ranae multae habitant.
Puer ad stagnum advenit.
Puer lascivus est.
Stagnum contemplans, puer dicit,
"Ranas video!"
A puero territae,
ranae sub undis se celant.
Puer dicit,
"Ubi estis, ranae?
Ad me advenite!
Ludere volo!"
Denuo stagnum contemplans,
puer ranas videt,
capitula caute exerentes de aquis.
Ridens, puer saxa colligit,
et per lusum saxis ranas appetit.
Hoc modo puer ranas multas necat.
Gemens et lacrimas effundens,
rana una ad puerum clamat,
"O puer, tuam misericordiam imploro!
Tu saxis ludis,
sed sorores meae mortuae sunt,
ut vides.
Hoc, quod lusum tibi, nobis mors est."
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Here is the version of the fable in Mille Fabulae et Una:
Mille Fabulae et Una: 606. Ranae et Puer.
Lascivus puer, ad stagnum conspicatus ranas exerentes capitula de aquis, per lusum saxis illas appetebat deque illis iugulabat multas. Tum una, “Iste quidem puer,” inquit, “ut videtis, ludit; nostrae autem sorores moriuntur.”
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: The Boys and the Frogs
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: The Boys and the Frogs
There were some boys out playing one day, skipping rocks across the water of a pond.
"Look!" shouted one of the boys. "There's a frog! Let's hit him."
The boys then started throwing rocks at the frog, who plunged back down under the water. The boys waited, and each time a frog dared to stick his head out of the water, the boys threw their rocks.
Finally one of the frogs rose up from the water and spoke to the boys. "Boys!" shouted the frog. "This is just some game for you, but for us it is life or death."
