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XLV.— MAN WITH TWO WIVES (Re. xvi.) 



The last of Ranutio's hundred fables derived from prose 

 iEsop's 56 = Babrius 22. It is probably eastern. Cf. 

 Liebrecht, Zur Volkskunde, p. 120. Clouston, Popular Tales^ 

 i. 16. 



XLVI.— NURSE AND WOLF (Av. i.) 



From Avian. Chaucer seems to refer to it : Freres 

 Tale, 6957. 



XLVII.— TORTOISE AND BIRDS (Av. ii.) 



From Avian, though it also occurs in the Greek prose 

 /Esop 419, from Babrius 115. ^Elian's story of the Death of 

 /Eschylus because an eagle mistook his bald pate for a rock 

 and dropped the tortoise on it, is supposed to be derived 

 from this fable. It is certainly Indian, like most of Avian's, 

 and occurs in the Kacchapa "Jataka. Here a Tortoise is 

 carried by two birds, holding a stick in its mouth, and falls 

 on opening its mouth to rebuke the birds that are scoffing 

 at it. Buddha uses the incident as a lesson to a talkative 

 king. Cf. North's Bidpai^ ed. Jacobs 174, and Indian 

 Fairy Tales , number 13. 



XLVIIL— THE TWO CRABS (Av. iii.) 



From Avian. Aristophanes, Pax 1083, says: "You 

 will never get a crab to walk straight," which may refer to 

 this fable. 



XLIX.— ASS IN LION'S SKIN (Av. iv.) 

 Avian, ed. Ellis, 5. Supposed to be referred to by Socrates 



