2io ^SOP'S FABLES 



ordinary Greek prose .^Esops. It was included as the last 

 fable in Alsop's Oxford JEsop, 1798, where it was introduced 

 in order to insert a gibe against Bentley for his " dog in the 

 manger " behaviour with regard to the Royal Manuscripts. 

 See Jebbj Bentley, p. 62. 



XLL— MAN AND WOODEN GOD (Re. vi.) 



Taken by Stainhowel from the hundred Latin prose 

 versions of Greek fables translated by Ranutio D'Arezzo 

 from a manuscript, in 1476, before any of the fables had been 

 published in Greek. It occurs in the Greek prose iEsop 66, 

 from Babrius 119. 



XLIL— THE FISHER (Re. vii.) 



Told by Herodotus, i. 141. Thence by Ennius, Ed. 

 Vahlen, p. 151. Ranutio got it from prose iEsop, 39, 

 derived from Babrius 9. There is an English proverb : 

 " Fish are not to be caught with a bird-call." 



XLIIL— THE SHEPHERD BOY (Re. x.) ' 



Ultimately derived from Babrius : though only extant in 

 the Greek prose iEsop. Gittlbauer has restored it from the 

 prose version in his edition of Babrius, number 199. We 

 are familiar with the story from its inclusion in the spelling- 

 books, like that of Mavor, whence our expression " To cry 

 wolf." 



XLIV.— YOUNG THIEF AND MOTHER 



(Re. xiv.) 



From Babrius through the Greek prose. Restored by 

 Gittlbauer 247. 



