Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
THE DEER AND THE
VINE
A deer who was being pursued by hunters hid under a grapevine. When the hunters
had passed by, she turned her head and began to eat the leaves of the vine.
One of the hunters turned and when he saw the deer, he hurled his javelin and
struck her. As she was dying, the deer groaned to herself, 'It serves me right,
since I injured the vine that saved me!'
This fable can used against people who are punished by God for having harmed
their benefactors. |
 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 77: Gibbs (Oxford) 80 [English]
Perry 77: L'Estrange 148 [English]
Perry 77: Townsend 184 [English]
Perry 77: Chambry 103 [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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