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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)

136. THE MAN AND HIS DAUGHTER
Perry 379 (Life of Aesop 141)

There was a man who had fallen in love with his own daughter. Goaded by lust, he sent his wife to the countryside whereupon he forced himself violently on his daughter. She said to him, 'Father, you are committing an unholy crime. I would rather have offered myself to a hundred men than to you!'


Source: Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura Gibbs. Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002.
NOTE: New cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.