Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
THE ONAGER, THE DONKEY AND THE DRIVER
An onager saw a donkey standing in the sunshine. The onager approached the donkey
and congratulated him on his good physical condition and excellent diet. Later
on, the onager saw that same donkey bearing a load on his back and being harried
by a driver who was beating the donkey from behind with a club. The onager then
declared, 'Well, I am certainly not going to admire your good fortune any longer,
seeing as you pay such a high price for your prosperity!' |
 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 183: Gibbs (Oxford) 4 [English]
Perry 183: L'Estrange 189 [English]
Perry 183: Chambry 264 [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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