Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
THE SHEPHERD AND THE WOLF CUB
A shepherd found a little wolf cub and raised it. Then, when the cub was bigger
he taught it to steal from his neighbours' flocks. Once he had learned how to
do this, the wolf said to the shepherd, 'Now that you have shown me how to steal,
take care that many of your own sheep don't go missing!'
The fable shows that people who are vicious by nature will often injure
their teachers once they have been taught to steal and be greedy. |
 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 366: Gibbs (Oxford) 35 [English]
Perry 366: Townsend 78 [English]
Perry 366: Chambry 315 [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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