Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
THE SNAKE AND THE WASP
A wasp landed on the head of a snake and began to harass him, stinging him again
and again. As he was suffering from terrible pain but couldn't get rid of his
enemy, the snake crawled into the road and looked for an oncoming wagon. He
then put his head under the wheel as he said, 'I die together with my enemy!'
This is a fable for people who share their troubles with their enemies. |
 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 216: Gibbs (Oxford) 161 [English]
Perry 216: Townsend 175 [English]
Perry 216: Chambry 331 [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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