![]() Not to worry he found out as game cocks fight each other all the time. A Partridge put in with gamecocks watched them fight and worried for his safety. Huntsmen asked about the Fox the owner denied seeing one but pointed at the house. A Fox sought and was granted shelter in a home. A Fisherman gets lucky when a Tunny jumps into the boat. ![]() A Fox mocks a Crocodile because of its skin. The Fox cursed the Bramble who them chided the Fox for being so careless as to fall into the Bramble. A caught Fish pleads for life but the fisherman says no with no certainty of another. A Fox lost his tail in a trap and tried to get fellow foxes to trim their tails. A Cat caught a Cock for a meal but first asked for excuses as to why it crowed so early. The fox goes away in disgust saying he didn’t want them anyhow. A fox tries to get grapes to eat but cannot. Fox pointed out this was a likely story but nobody there could refute it. Monkey told the Fox these were ancestors. 014 The Ape boasting to the Fox about his Ancestry. They were disappointed to find rocks and sand. Fishermen were expecting a big catch due to the weight of their nets. A leopard was bragging about the beauty of his spots when a fox came up saying how much more beautiful his mind was. Once he caught some they danced to his tune because they were under his control. A Fisherman played music to draw Fish but none came. 011-020Ġ11 The Fisherman Pipes to the Fish. A fox learns how to be comfortable around a lion. The Goat was talked into helping the Fox who then left the Goat on his own. A Goat and Fox went into a deep well to drink. (Aesop tells a tale of Zeus draining the sea by drinking.) Not linked yet 009 The Fox and the Goat in the Well. The Cat asked how they were and the birds answered they would be better off without the Cat. The Cat played the part of a doctor and called on ailing birds. A goatherd put his Goats with wild Goats and prized the wild and so fed them better than his hoping they would stay. (A debtor tries to sell a pig and greatly extols its virtues.) Not linked yet 006 The Goatherd and the Wild Goats. A nightingale gets caught by a hawk and pleas for life because he is such a small bit of a meal. Now Beetles sleep while Eagle’s eggs hatch. Rebuffed, Beetle destroyed Eagle’s eggs no matter where they were laid. A Daw saw an eagle carry off a sheep and tried the same trick. Don’t take on more than you can accomplish. The Fox was delighted when some hot meat burned the Eagle’s nest. The Eagle, hungry, brought a Fox kit to her young. 436) Annotated Index With LinksĠ01 Eagle and Fox. You can get it from through this link: Babrius and Phaedrus (Loeb Classical Library No. ![]() I purchased the book and find it quite interesting and useful. If you wish to study fables in more detail the Perry Loeb Classical Library book is highly recommended as one source. The index numbers found listed below and throughout this site are consistent with the Perry survey. That survey was published in Latin and Greek to be consistent with the original fable collections but an English version of the index to the survey was published as an appendix to the Loeb Classical Library Babrius and Phaedrus Fables which was translated and edited by Perry. In an attempt to make some sense of this Ben Edwin Perry published a survey of Greek and Latin fables in the Aesopic tradition in his Aesopica, published in 1952. Sources to fables are many and translations differ for the same fable in these different sources.
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