Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Perry reserves 417 for joke about a "wolf (lykos) who looked into
the poetry of Lycophron and hastened to a bird for the purpose of telling
him about it; but when the bird saw this foolish student of Lycophron
with his mouth wide open, he took to flight in a hurry." The joke
is found in the Byzantine tetrasticha, II.28
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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