Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
THE DONKEY ON THE ROOF
A donkey went up on the top of a house and while he was frisking about he broke
some of the roof tiles. A man came running up and dragged the donkey back down
to the ground, beating him with a club. The donkey, his back aching from the
blows, said to the man, 'But just yesterday and the day before you were so amused
when the monkey did the very same thing!' |
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 359: Gibbs
(Oxford) 339 [English]
Perry 359: Townsend 112 [English]
Perry 359: Babrius 125 [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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