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Perry's Index to the Aesopica

Perry reserves 424 for a joke reported in Diogenes Laertius, Vitae Philos. II.5.42: Aesop once said to the dwellers in the city of Corinth, 'Judge not virtue by popular standards.' (Socrates is the supposed source of this report.)


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.