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Perry's Index to the Aesopica

Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:

THE BIRDS AND THE CUCKOO

Aesop says that when the cuckoo asked the little birds why they ran away from him, they said it was because he would someday turn into a hawk.

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 446: Gibbs (Oxford) 300 [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.