214 ^SOP'S FABLES 



very popular in the Middle Ages. Lydgate founded his 

 Chorle and Bird upon it. 



LIX.— FOX, COCK, AND DOG (Ro. vii.) 



Inserted among a selection from Poggio's Facetiae by 

 Stainhowel, who derived it from Romulus, iv. 18, so that it was 

 probably once extant in Phasdrus. A similar fable occurs 

 as the Kukuta "Jataka which is figured on the Buddhist 

 Stupa of Bharhut. I have reproduced the figure in my 

 History^ p. 76, and suggest there that the medieval form 

 represents the original of the Jataka better than that 

 occurring in the present text, from considerations derived 

 from this illustration. 



All the preceding fables occur in the Stainhowel, and so 

 in Caxton's ./Esop. The remainder have come into the 

 popular ^Esops from various sources, some of which are by 

 no means easy to trace. 



LX.— WIND AND SUN. 



Avian 4, but not included by Caxton in his Selections 

 fro?n Avian. L'Estrange has it as his Fable 223. It occurs 

 also in Babrius, 18, whence it came to the Greek prose 

 iEsop. An epigram of Sophocles against Euripides contains 

 an allusion to this fable (Athen. xiii. 82). The fable is 

 applied to the behaviour of wives by Plutarch : Conj. Praec. 

 chap. xii. It is given by La Fontaine vi. 3, Loqman (the 

 Arabic iEsop) xxxiv., and Waldis' Esopus i. 89. 



LXL— HERCULES AND THE WAGGONER. 



Avian 32. Babrius 20. Greek iEsop, ed. Halm, 81. 

 Not included by Caxton in his Selections. " Put your 

 shoulder to the wheel " obviously comes from this fable, and 

 thus ultimately from Avian's line : 



