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" Et manibus pigras disce juvare rotas." 

 Also in La Fontaine vi. 18, Waldis ii. 14, L'Estrange 246. 



LXII.— MISER AND HIS GOLD. 



Greek Prose iEsop, 59. Lessing, ii. 16. La Fontaine, 

 iv. 20. L'Estrange, 146. 



LXIIL— MAN, BOY, AND DONKEY. 



La Fontaine, iii. 1, from Poggio's Facetiae. We get this 

 ultimately from Conde Lucanor^ a Spanish collection of tales, 

 many of which can be traced to the East, so that this is 

 probably of Oriental origin, and indeed it occurs as the 

 Lady's nineteenth story in the Turkish book of the Forty 

 Vezirs. The remarks of the passers-bv in the original are 

 more forcible than elegant. 



LXIV.— FOX AND MOSQUITOES. 



This is the only fable which can be traced with any 

 plausibility to iEsop himself. At any rate, it is attributed 

 to him on the high authority of Aristotle, Rhet. II. 20. 

 The Roman Emperors seem to have had a special liking for 

 this fable which they were wont to use to console pro- 

 vincials for the rapacity of proconsuls or procurators. 

 Occurs in Plutarch, ed. Wittemb. IV. i. 144. Prose 

 iEsop, 36 (from Aristotle). Gesta Romanorum, 51. Waldis, 

 iv. 52. La Fontaine, xii. 13. L'Estrange, 254. 



LXV.— FOX WITHOUT A TAIL. 



Greek prose iEsop, 46. Probably from Babrius (see 

 Gittlbauer's edition, no. 224). Also Waldis, iii. 41. La 

 Fontaine, v. 5. L'Estrange, 10 1. 



