Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
THE COOK AND THE DOG
Someone was hosting a splendid feast in the city after having performed a sacrifice.
A dog belonging to the host ran into another man's dog who was a friend of his
and invited him to come to the feast. The other dog came but the cook grabbed
him by the leg and threw him out over the wall and into the street. When some
other dogs asked him how the party had gone, the dog answered, 'Couldn't have
been better! I can't even quite tell how I made my exit.' |
 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 328: Gibbs (Oxford) 382 [English]
Perry 328: L'Estrange 107 [English]
Perry 328: Townsend 292 [English]
Perry 328: Babrius 42 [Greek]
Perry 328: Chambry 178 [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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