The Farmer and the Viper

by Aesop

Versions of The Farmer and the Viper include:

• "Of the Man and of the Serpent", translated by William Caxton, edited by Joseph Jacobs, in The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484 (1484)
• "A Countryman and a Snake", in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692)
• "The Farmer and the Snake", translated by George Fyler Townsend, in Three Hundred Æsop's Fables (1867)
• "The Farmer and the Viper", translated by Vernon Stanley Jones, in Æsop's fables: A New Translation (1912)

Derivative Works

• Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent by Nathaniel Hawthorne