Rana rupta et bos explained

Rana rupta et bos (The Frog that exploded, and the ox) is a Latin retelling from the Liber primus of the Fabulae (1:24) of the Roman poet Phaedrus (1st century); the Latin text is itself based on The Frog and the Ox, one of Aesop's Fables.^[1]

References

1. http://www.lateinheft.de/alle-ubersetzungen/phaedrus-ubersetzungen/ Phaedrus Übersetzungen
2. http://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/pres/2008/pres2008-0424.pdf 10. Frosch und Ochse.
3. http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/phaedr1.html Phaedri Avgvsti Liberti Fabvlarvm Aesopiarvm Liber Primvs
4. Phaedrus, The Fables of Phædrus literally translated into English prose with notes, Christopher Smart and Henry Thomas Riley (transl.). Accessed 29 Aug. 2016.
5. Georg Büchmann and Walter Robert-Tornow, Geflügelte Worte: Der Citatenschatz des deutschen Volkes, Berlin, 1898. F. Weidling. Accessed 29 Aug. 2016.

External links

• Der Frosch und der Ochse (“The Frog and the Ox”), p. 90, illustrated Latin manuscript, at uni-mannheim.de