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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.