Canes legatos olim misere ad Iovem eliora vitae tempora oratum suae, ut sese eriperet hominum contumeliis, furfuribus sibi consparsum quod panem darent fimoque turpi maxime explerent famem.
Once the dogs sent ambassadors to Jupiter to petition him for a better lot in life. They begged that he would deliver them from the insulting treatment of men, who gave them bread sprinkled with bran to eat, and sought to satisfy their hunger chiefly with dung.
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