Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
THE DOG AND HER MASTER
A man who was about to go on a journey said to his dog who was standing beside
him, 'Why are you just standing there with your mouth hanging open? Get yourself
ready, you're going to go with me.' The dog wagged her tail, fawning on her
master as she said, 'I am all ready to go; you are the one who's delaying!' |
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 330: Gibbs (Oxford) 393 [English]
Perry 330: Townsend 14 [English]
Perry 330: Babrius 110 [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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