More specifically concerning: pancatantra
waggle
1 June 2025, around 15.05.
Beata est ergo uita conueniens naturae suae Happy, therefore, is the life in agreement with its own nature. —Seneca (De vita beata, 3.3, trans. James Ker) In the kitchen, the dog wags her tail gently, hoping for food or attention or the assurance that she is not alone. I am again trying to track where […]
fabulous
9 June 2025, around 8.52.
Extract from fol. 13r of the Ashmole Bestiary, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511, CC-BY-NC 4.0. …it is true that I long syth haue redde and herde that the beste clerkes ben not the wysest men. —Reynard the Fox (Caxton trans.) I’ve had to give up on one of the translations of the Pancatantra that I’ve […]