The tortoise and the snail: a lexical shellgame.(Critical essay)

Medium Aevum | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

In his second fable, the poet Avianus (c. AD 400) tells the story of a tortoise (testudo) which tired of its slowness and asked an eagle to carry it into the air in return for some precious sea-shells: (1) 

 
   Pennatis avibus quondam testudo locuta est: si quis eam volucrum 
   constituisset humi, protinus a rubris conchas proferret arenis, 
   Quis pretium nitido cortice baca daret. Indignum sibimet, tardo 
   quod sedula gressu Nil ageret toto perficeretque die. (2)

The eagle dropped it (deliberately, according to its source Babrius and a collateral version) ...

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