Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
THE TWO HYENAS
They say that the hyena has a double nature: for a period of time the hyena
is male, and then later on she is female. The story goes that when a male hyena
was treating a female badly, she said to him, 'Listen here: remember how things
used to be, and don't forget that I will be a male hyena the next time around!'
The fable is a lesson for someone who is temporarily in a position of authority:
people who have been judged in the past can later on be in a position to judge
their former teachers. |
 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 243: Gibbs (Oxford) 366 [English]
Perry 243: Chambry 340 [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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