Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
THE LIONS AND THE HARES
Only a ridiculous person would try to make laws to govern the [most superior
members of a society. Indeed, those gods among men] would probably respond as
did the lions in the story of Antisthenes when the hares harangued the assembly,
holding that everyone was to be considered of equal worth. |
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 450: Gibbs (Oxford) 21 [English]
Perry 450: Townsend 201 [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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