The Satyr and the Traveler. A satyr found a traveler who was buried in the snow and all but dead from the cold. Feeling sorry for him, the satyr brought him into his cave. As the man warmed his hands by breathing on them, the satyr asked why he was doing that; "To warm them up," said the man. Then, when they had sat down to dinner, the traveler breathed on his porridge. When the satyr asked what he was doing, the man said, "To cool it down." The satyr immediately threw the man out, saying, "I don't want you in my cave if you can blow hot and cold from the same mouth."
Satyrus et Viator. Satyrus viatorem, nive obrutum atque algore enectum, misertus ducit in antrum suum. Refocillantem manus anhelitu oris percontatur causam; "Ut calefiant" inquit. Postea, cum accumberent, sufflat viator in polentam. Quod cur ita faceret interrogatus, "Ut frigescat" inquit. Tunc continuo Satyrus viatorem eiiciens, "Nolo" inquit "in meo ut sis antro, cui tam diversum est os."
Notes. This is Barlow 74 , which is Perry 35 in Perry's classification scheme. The poor satyr is a creature notoriously confused by the ways of civilization, as you can see in the story of the satyr and the fire (Perry 467).
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