sic destinata dare cum vellet singulis et adprobaret populus, qui illas noverat, Aesopus media subito in turba constitit:  si maneret condito sensus patri, quam graviter ferret quod voluntatem suam interpretari non potuissent Attici! rogatus deinde solvit errorem omnium: Domum et ornamenta cum venustis hortulis et vina vetera date lanificae rusticae; vestem, uniones, pedisequos et cetera illi adsignate vitam quae luxu trahit; agros et villam et pecora cum pastoribus donate moechae.
When she was about to distribute to each the things thus marked out for them, and the people generally approved, since they knew the girls, Aesop suddenly stood forth in the midst of the crowd and exclaimed: Oh, if their buried father still were conscious, how it would grieve him that the men of Athens could not interpret his will! Then, when asked about it, he explained how they had all gone astray: Give the house and the fine furniture, along with the lovely gardens and the old wines, to the spinner of wool, who lives in the country; assign the garments, the pearls, the attendants, and so on, to her who spends her life in dissipation; and as for the fields, the farmhouse, and the sheep along with the shepherds, give these to the meretricious girl.
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