Union Is Strength
Latin Lessons and Reader by Allen H. Weld. Internet Archive link . This is story 21 in the "Fables" section. There is also a vocabulary in back of the book. Scilurus, Scytharum rex, morti proximus, adferri fasciculum hastilium jussit, eumque, ut erat colligatus, dedit confringendum filiis suis. Cum id quisque se facere posse negavisset, ipse, soluto fasciculo, singula hastilia facile confregit, ita docens illos, si concordes essent, insuperabiles fore; si dissiderent, infirmos futuros. Scilurus, Scytharum rex, morti proximus, adferri fasciculum hastilium jussit, eumque, ut erat colligatus, dedit confringendum filiis suis. Cum id quisque se facere posse negavisset, ipse, soluto fasciculo, singula hastilia facile confregit, ita docens illos, si concordes essent, insuperabiles fore; si dissiderent, infirmos futuros. Scilurus, the king of the Scythians, Scilurus, Scytharum rex, being near death, morti proximus, ordered that a bundle of spear shafts be brought to him adfe...