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meeresfarben
06-18-2007, 03:06 PM
Ah man, this is really urgent, I need this until tomorrow. Sorry, I'm a complete idiot for showing this to you guys so late.

LE CORBEAU VOULANT IMITER L'AIGLE

L'oiseau de Jupiter enlevant un mouton,
Un corbeau témoin de l'affaire,
Et plus faible de reins, mais non pas moins glouton,
En voulut sur l'heure autant faire.
Il tourne à l'entour du troupeau,
Marque entre cent moutons le plus gras, le plus beau,
Un vrai mouton de sacrifice:
On l'avait réservé pour la bouche des Dieux.
Gaillard corbeau disait, en le couvant des yeux:
"Je ne sais qui fut ta nourrice;
Mais ton corpe me paraît en merveilleux état:
Tu me serviras de pâture."
Sur l'animal bêlant à ces mots il s'abat.
La moutonnière créature
Pesait plus qu'on fromage, outre que sa toison
Était d'une épaisseur extrême,
Et mêlée à peu près de la même facon
Que le barbe de Polyphème.
Elle empêtra si bien les serres du corbeau,
Que le pauvre animal ne put faire retraite.
Le berger vient, le prend, l'encage bien et beau,
Le donne à ses enfants pour servir d'amusette.

Il faut se mesurer; la conséquence est nette:
Mal prend aux volereaux de faire les voleurs.

L'exemple est un dangereux leurre:
Tous les mangeurs de gens ne sont pas grands seigneurs;

Où la guêpe a passé le moucheron demeure.

PLEASE HELP! Thank you.

Bundespy
06-18-2007, 04:11 PM
Do you need it to be in poestry to??

meeresfarben
06-18-2007, 04:33 PM
I don't know... :15:
Just any kind of translation would be fine. The more accurate, the better, though.

Bundespy
06-18-2007, 09:40 PM
I've done what I could, even though you can certainly improve it. but here is a beginning :


HE CRAW WILLING TO IMITATE THE EAGLE

Jupiter's bird taking a sheep,
A craw seeing this
Weaker flyer, but as much ungry
Wanted to do the same at the moment.
He keeps turning around the flock,
and choose between hundreds of sheeps , the fatest, the most beautiful,
a real sacrificial sheep :
it had been saved for gods' mouth .
The strong craw, watching it carefully was saying :
I don't who was your "nurse",
But your body seems in a wonderful state (to me)
you will be my food.
As he said this words, he fell on the bleating animal,
But the sheepish creature,
was heavier than a cheese, and moreover, her fur
was very thick and curled in the same way
that Polypheme's beard.
it got so much the craw's claw
that the poor animal couldn't retreat.
The shepherd came, got it, and cage it well and nice,
give it to his children to be a diversion.

It's needed to measure oneself; Consequences are clear :
Bad things happens to little stealer who pretend to real stealer.

An example is a dangerous illusion :
Every people's chef aren't great lord;

where the wasp has gone, the midge still is.