Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
THE EUNUCH AND THE FORTUNE-TELLER
A eunuch went to a fortune-teller to find out whether he would ever have children.
The fortune-teller sacrificed an animal and spread out its liver for examination.
He then said, 'When I look into the liver, I see that you will be a father,
but when I look upon your face, you do not even appear to be a man!' |
 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 310: Gibbs (Oxford) 367 [English]
Perry 310: Babrius 54 [Greek]
Perry 310: Chambry 113 [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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