Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
THE WOLF, THE FOX AND THREE TRUE THINGS
A wretched fox had fallen into the clutches of a wolf. She begged the wolf to
spare her life and not to kill her, old as she was. The wolf said, 'By Pan,
I will let you live if you tell me three true things.' The fox said, 'First,
I wish that we had never met! Second, I wish you had been blind when we did
meet! Third, and last of all, I hope that you do not live out this year, so
that we will never meet again!' |
 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 159: Gibbs (Oxford) 109 [English]
Perry 159: Babrius 53 [Greek]
Perry 159: Chambry 230 [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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