Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
THE BEAR, THE LION AND THE FOX GO HUNTING
The bear, the lion, and the fox went hunting together. While the lion and the
bear tracked down their prey by their own efforts, the fox instead found a camel
who had been tied to a post. She then went and told her companions that this
was something they could catch. |
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 416: Gibbs (Oxford) 56 [English]
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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