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Perry's Index to the Aesopica

As Perry explains, he reserved 286 for "Spider and Lizard, a fragment of a Babrian fable quoted by Suidas s.v. kolotes: A lizard came upon a shrewd spider's web and entered, cutting away the subtle texture of the wall..." [the fragment breaks off here, and there is no other extant version to supply the conclusion].


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.