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Perry's Index to the Aesopica

Perry reserves 421 for a long joke between a son and his father about counting eggs. Perry found the joke in a Byzantine manuscript, cod. Atheniensis 1201.


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.