Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
JUPITER AND THE FOX
No piece of luck can conceal a depraved nature.
Jupiter had turned the fox into the likeness of a human being and had seated
her on the throne as his queen. But when the fox happened to notice a beetle
creeping out from its hole, she leaped up and began chasing this familiar object
of prey. The gods laughed at the fox as she ran, while the great father of the
gods blushed and renounced his relations with the fox. As he chased her out of
the chamber, Jupiter said, 'Live the life you deserve, since you clearly are
not worthy of my favours!' |
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 107: Gibbs (Oxford) 351 [English]
Perry 107: Chambry 119 [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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