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And when a Ladv's in the case, 

 You know all other things give place. 



LXXI.— THE LION IN LOVE. 



Babrius 98. Used by Eumenes to warn the Macedonians 

 against the wiles of Antigonus (Diod. Sicul. xix. 25). 

 La Fontaine, iv. 1. L'Estrange, 121. 



LXXIL— BUNDLE OF STICKS. 



Babrius 47. A similar apologue is told of Ghenghiz Khan, 

 and occurs in Harkon's Armenian History of the Tartars. 

 Plutarch tells it of a king of Scythia (Jpophth. 84, 16). 

 Cf. Eccl. iv. 12. L'Estrange, 62. La Fontaine, iv. 17. 



LXXIIL— LION, FOX, AND BEASTS (Ro. iv. 12). 



Referred to by Plato, Alcib. i. 503 ; also by Horace, Epist. 

 I. i. 73 [Nulla vestigia retrorsum). It comes to us from the 

 medieval prose Phaedrus. Probably Indian, as it occurs in 

 the Panchatantra^ iii. 14. Also in the Tutinameh, ii. 125. 



LXXIV.— ASS'S BRAINS. 



Babrius 95, told of the Lion and Bear. Certainly 

 Indian, where it occurs in the Panchatantra, iv. 2, except 

 that an Ass occurs instead of a Deer. From India the 

 fable got to Judaea, where it is found in the Rabbinic Com- 

 mentary on Exodus, here again the animal is an Ass. In 

 both Indian and Greek original the animal loses its heart, 

 which is regarded by the Ancients as the seat of intelligence. 

 I have had to change the missing organ in order to preserve 

 the pun which makes up most of the point of the story. 

 The tale is however of very great critical importance in the 



