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Common terms and phrases
Abstemius Achéron Aesop animal appears author beau belette best bête books borrowed cent cerf character Charybde chat chien clear collection of Indian common cormoran Crown 8vo Death Descartes dieux dit-il Edited English Ésope eût example Exercises fable fashion find first Fontaine Fontaine's friends gens give goddess good good cheer great Greek Grenouilles Horace Indian fables jour Jupiter kind king l'autre L'ours less life line lion little Louis XIV loup Lower Madame de Sévigné maint maître make manger marêts meaning means modern French monkey moral mouche no doubt old word one's out again participle passer perhaps Phaedrus phrase Pomone power prep probably queue renard rhyme riff-raff right s. m. pl sage same sense seventeenth century short singe small souris story Styx subject is taken take Taken from Aesop time tortue used vanity VIII vocabulary work world years young ΙΟ