Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
THE FOX AND THE LION
The fox had never seen a lion before, so when she happened to met the lion for
the first time she all but died of fright. The second time she saw him, she
was still afraid, but not as much as before. The third time, the fox was bold
enough to go right up to the lion and speak to him.
The fable shows that familiarity makes it easy to confront even frightening
situations. |
 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.
Perry 10: Gibbs (Oxford) 269 [English]
Perry 10: Jacobs 34 [English]
Perry 10: L'Estrange 71 [English]
Perry 10: Townsend 203 [English]
Perry 10: Chambry 42 [Greek]
You can find a compilation of Perry's index to the Aesopica in the gigantic appendix to his
edition of Babrius and Phaedrus for the Loeb Classical Library
(Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1965). This book is an absolute must for anyone interested
in the Aesopic fable tradition. Invaluable.
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