Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
ZEUS AND THE SNAKE
Zeus was getting married and all the animals brought gifts to the wedding. The
snake also came creeping along, holding a rose in his mouth. When Zeus saw him,
he said, 'I am willing to take gifts from all the other animals, even when they
carry them in their feet, but from your mouth, I will take nothing.'
The fable shows that even the favours of wicked people are frightening. |
 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 221: Gibbs (Oxford) 135 [English]
Perry 221: L'Estrange 140 [English]
Perry 221: Chambry 122 [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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