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illustration from Bewick's Aesop |
- This Fable will a general law attest:
- That each one deems that what's his own is best. Definitely my favorite line out of that fable.
- I’m surprised by how involved the gods are in the fables
- It is interesting to me that Aesop switched a man for Pandora in this fable. It is a curious thing to do.
- I wonder why the trees were so important to the gods
- “Those who are known to have deceived,
- When they speak truth, are not believ'd.”
- Says a man,
- "Why build you on so small a plan?"
- The Sage replies: "Though small, I fear
- There's more than room for friends sincere."
- A Boy that would not learn his Book was a little odd. I got what it was saying, but it was silly.
- “The Fox (being one of the Pretenders) stomach’d it extremely to see the Choice go against him, and presently rounds the New-elect in the Ear, with a piece of secret Service that he could do him.” Why is the fox a pretender?
- The fox as a trickster again. I wonder where this idea comes from originally.
- The fox flatters the crow, then steals its food.
- We actually discussed the fox and the grapes today in one of my classes!
- “Still meditating self-defence,
- At any other man's expense.”
- “he subtle Fox herself avails
- And by his horns the mound she scales,
- And leaves the Goat in all the mire
- To gratify his heart's desire.”
- “Lion and Man, on some pretense,
- Disputed for preeminence.” Oh wow, interesting
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