Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)
353. THE CAMEL AND THE PYRRHIC DANCE
Perry 249 (Babrius
80)
While he was out carousing, the owner of a camel ordered her to dance
to the music of bronze cymbals and flutes. The camel refused and said
'I am lucky just to walk down the road without being laughed at: dancing
the Pyrrhic is out of the question!'
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.
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