Examining the book, came across a tutorial for Literature in Grade 9. Opened and the first thing that caught my eye - a fable "The Crow and the Fox" in the translation of VK Trediakovsky, the court poet of Empress Anna Ivanovna, the creator of the new Russian poetry. Impressed. His heavy-handedness ...
Nowhere Raven carry the cheese part of the event;
on a tree so took off, something to love.
thereof Lisitsa wanted to eat here;
order domochsya b, heads to such flattery:
Voronov beauty, feathers that are near,
And it has also praised veschbu,
«Right - he says - a bird-mail you
Zevsovoyu vpredki, bude your voice for themselves
And hear the songs, kindness of all your dignity. "
Crow lifted up praise, mnya themselves decently,
started, how much can be louder, Krakau and screaming,
To praise the latest get a stamp;
But thus out of his nose dissolved
fell on the ground that the cheese. Liska emboldened
Onoyu greed, said to the laughter:
«Всем ты добр, мой Ворон; только ты без сердца мех».
Qui se laudari gaudet verbis subdolis,
fere dat poenas turpi poenitentia.
Cum de fenestra corvus raptum caseum
comesse vellet, celsa residens arbore,
vulpes hunc vidit, deinde sic coepit loqui:
«O qui tuarum, corve, pennarum est nitor!
Quantum decoris corpore et vultu geris!
Si vocem haberes, nulla prior ales foret».
At ille stultus, dum vult vocem ostendere,
emisit ore caseum, quem celeriter
dolosa vulpes avidis rapuit dentibus.
Tum demum ingemuit corvi deceptus stupor
