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

447. THE MONKEYS AND THE CITY
Perry 464 (Hermogenes, Progymnasmata 1)

The monkeys came together in an assembly to decide whether or not to found a city. When the monkeys concluded that it would be a good thing to do, they were about to begin the work. At that point an old monkey restrained them, saying that they would be captured more easily by enclosing themselves inside a city's walls.


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.