NOTES 20: 



XXI.— JAY AND PEACOCK (Ro. ii. 15). 



Phaedrus, i. 3. Referred to by Horace, Epist. I. iii. 18, 

 and Plautus, AuluL II. i. Probably Indian, owing to the 

 habitat of the bird and the similarity of the Nacca Jataka. 

 The parvenu bird varies. Benedict of Oxford, in his 

 Hebrew version, makes it Raven. Most of the English 

 iEsops call it a Jackdaw. Thackeray includes it in the 

 Prologue to The Newcomes. A monograph has been 

 written on this fable by M. Fuchs, 1886 (Dissertation). 

 Our expression, " Borrowed plumes," comes from it. 



XXII.— FROG AND OX (Ro. ii. 20). 



Phaedrus, i. 24. Told by Horace, Sat. II. iii. 314. Cf. 

 Martial, x. 79. Carlyle gives a version in his Miscellanies, ii. 

 283, from the old German of Boner. Thackeray introduces 

 it in the Prologue to The Newcomes. There is said to be 

 a species of Frog in South America, Ceratophrys, which has 

 a remarkable power of blowing itself out, 



XXIII.— ANDROCLES (Ro. iii. 1). 



Medieval prose Phaedrus. Quoted by Appian, Aulus 

 Gellius, and Seneca. Probably Oriental. Was dropped out 

 of iEsop, but is familiar to us from its inclusion in Day's 

 Sandford and Merton ; see also, Painter, Palace of Pleasure, 

 ed. Jacobs, i. 89, 90, where the slave is called Androdus. 



XXIV.— BAT, BIRDS, AND BEASTS (Ro. iii. 4). 



Medieval prose Phaedrus. Ouoted by Varro, and in the 

 Pandects, xxi., De evict. I have made use of the Arabic 



