Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources. by REV. Thomas James...with More Than Fifty Illustrations, Designed by J by Aesop (9781425518967)

Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources. by REV. Thomas James...with More Than Fifty Illustrations, Designed by J

by Aesop

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WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations." The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

1425518966

EAN

9781425518967

Publisher

UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR

Publication Date

13 Sep 2006

Pages

224

Age Group

4 to 12

Grades

P to 07

Weight (kg)

0.32

Dimensions (cm)

23.4 x 15.6 x 1.2

Lexile Level

1090

About Author

Though many modern scholars dispute his existence, Aesop's life was chronicled by first century Greek historians who wrote that Aesop, or Aethiop, was born into Greek slavery in 620 B.C. Freed because of his wit and wisdom, Aesop supposedly traveled throughout Greece and was employed at various times by the governments of Athens and Corinth. Some of Aesop's most recognized fables are The Tortoise and the Hare, The Fox and the Grapes, and The Ant and the Grasshopper. His simple but effective morals are widely used and illustrated for children.