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Perry's Index to the Aesopica

Perry reserves 471 for a joke about a farmer who burns his shirt because of the lice who are tormenting him so badly. The anecdote is found in Appian, Bell. Civ. I 101.

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.