Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
THE MOUNTAIN IN LABOUR
A mountain had gone into labour and was groaning terribly. Such rumours excited
great expectations all over the country. In the end, however, the mountain gave
birth to a mouse.
This is a fable written for people who make serious-sounding threats but
who actually accomplish nothing. |
 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 520: Caxton 2.5 [English]
Perry 520: Gibbs (Oxford) 280 [English]
Perry 520: Jacobs 14 [English]
Perry 520: L'Estrange 23 [English]
Perry 520: Townsend 25 [English]
Perry 520: Steinhowel 2.5 [Latin, illustrated] Mannheim
University Library
Perry 520: Phaedrus 4.24 [Latin]
Perry 520: Rom. Anglicus 90 [Latin]
Perry 520: Rom. Nil. (metrica) 21 [Latin]
Perry 520: Rom. Nil. (rhythmica) 2.5
[Latin]
Perry 520: Walter of England 25 [Latin]
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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