Aesop's Fables A New Revised Version From Original Sources
by Aesop
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WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I show more never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations." The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny. show lessTags
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Nice collection of short stories, each teaching us a useful lesson.
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Though many modern scholars dispute his existence, Aesop's life was chronicled by first century Greek historians who wrote that Aesop, or Aethiop, was born into Greek slavery in 620 B.C. Freed because of his wit and wisdom, Aesop supposedly traveled throughout Greece and was employed at various times by the governments of Athens and Corinth. Some show more of Aesop's most recognized fables are The Tortoise and the Hare, The Fox and the Grapes, and The Ant and the Grasshopper. His simple but effective morals are widely used and illustrated for children. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Translation originally published in 1848. Translator only identied in some editions with no name, living at Theddington Vicarage. Contains 203 fables.
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- Fiction and Literature, Tween
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- 398.24 — Society, Government, and Culture Customs, etiquette & folklore Folklore & Folktales Folk literature Fables, Magical Creatures
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- PA3855 .E5 .J3 — Language and Literature Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature Greek literature Individual authors Aesop
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