Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
AESOP AND THE BITCH
It was evening, and Aesop was on his way home from a dinner when a drunken bitch
made so bold as to start barking at him. Aesop then said to her, 'Bitch, bitch,
if you had any intelligence at all, you would trade in that wicked tongue of
yours and buy some wheat instead!' |
 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 423: Gibbs (Oxford) 571 [English]
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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