XLV.—MAN WITH TWO WIVES (Re. xvi.)
The last of Ranutio's hundred fables derived from prose Æsop's 56 = Babrius 22. It is probably eastern. Cf. Liebrecht, Zur Volkskunde, p. 120. Clouston, Popular Tales, l. 16.
XLVI.—NURSE AND WOLF (Av. i.)
From Avian. Chaucer seems to refer to it: Frere's Tale, 6957.
XLVII.—TORTOISE AND BIRDS (Av. ii.)
From Avian, though it also occurs in the Greek prose Æsop 419, from Babrius 115. Ælian's story of the Death of Æschylus because an eagle mistook his bald pate for a rock and dropped the tortoise on it, is supposed to be derived from this fable. It is certainly Indian, like most of Avian's, and occurs in the Kacchapa Jātaka. Here a Tortoise is carried by two birds, holding a stick in its mouth, and falls on opening its mouth to rebuke the birds that are scoffing at it. Buddha uses the incident as a lesson to a talkative king. Cf. North's Bidpai, ed. Jacobs 174, and Indian Fairy Tales, number 13.
XLVIII.—THE TWO CRABS (Av. iii.)
From Avian. Aristophanes, Pax 1083, says. "You will never get a crab to walk straight," which may refer to this fable.
XLIX.—ASS IN LION'S SKIN (Av. iv.)
Avian, ed. Ellis, 5. Supposed to be referred to by Socrates
