208 ^ESOP'S FABLES 



XXXIII.— HORSE, HUNTER, AND STAG 



(Ro. iv. 9). 



Phasdrus, iv. 4. Attributed by Aristotle, Rhet. ii. 20, to 

 Stesichorus. Referred to by Horace, Epist. I. x. 34, Given 

 in North's Bidpai, ed. Jacobs, p. 65. 



XXXIV.— FOX AND LION (Ro. iv. 12). 



Medieval prose iEsop. Probably Indian. Quoted by 

 Plato, Alcib. i. 503. Horace, Epist. I. i. 73. 



XXXV.— LION AND STATUE (Ro. iv. 15). 



Medieval prose Phasdrus. Ouoted by Plutarch, Apophth. 

 Lacaed. 69. Curiously enough, though this fable is no longer 

 extant in Babrius, it is one of those used by Crusius to prove 

 that Babrius was a Roman ; for it exists among those pass- 

 ing under the name of Gabrias, which were certainly derived 

 from a completer Babrius than that now extant. In this 

 the Statue is declared to have been placed upon a sepulchral 

 monument : a custom only found among the Romans and 

 not among the Greeks. The fable also occurs in the Greek 

 prose i^sop, ed. Halm, 63 (which is also derived from the 

 Babrius), and in Avian, 24. It is quoted in Spectator, 

 No. 11. 



XXXVL— ANT AND GRASSHOPPER (Ro. iv. 17). 



Medieval prose Phaedrus. The Ant is also the type of 

 provident toil in Proverbs vi. 6. La Fontaine's first fable 

 deals with this subject, and has recently formed the basis of 

 the Opera La Cigale. 



