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Demades and His Fable | 狄马德斯和他的寓言
The orator Demades, facing an inattentive Athenian assembly, cleverly used an unfinished Aesop's ...
The Fox and the Crow | 狐狸与乌鸦
A vain crow loses her cheese to a cunning fox who flatters her into singing. The fable warns agai...
The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf | 牧童与狼
A shepherd boy's repeated false alarms about a wolf lead the villagers to ignore his genuine cry ...
The Father and His Daughters | 父亲与女儿们
A father visits his two daughters, married to a gardener and a potter. Each daughter wishes for o...
The Fowler and the Adder | 捕鸟人与蝰蛇
A fowler intending to kill a bird is fatally bitten by a snake he steps on. With his dying breath...
The Two Crows | 两只乌鸦
Two rival crows argue about who can fly higher and decide to settle it with a contest carrying sa...
The Bundle of Sticks | 一捆木柴
A farmer teaches his quarreling sons a lesson about unity by showing them that a bundle of sticks...
The Thirsty Crow | 口渴的乌鸦
A thirsty crow uses ingenuity by dropping pebbles into a pitcher to raise the water level and que...
The Frog in the Shallow Well | 井底之蛙
A frog living in a shallow well boasts of its perfect life to a sea turtle, only to be humbled by...
The Wind and the Sun | 风和太阳
The Wind and the Sun compete to see who can make a traveler remove his coat. Forceful wind makes ...
The Three Craftsmen | 三位工匠
A story about three craftsmen, each insisting their own familiar material is best for city defens...
The Man and the Satyr | 人与萨堤尔
A man warms his hands and cools his food by blowing with his mouth, leading a satyr to renounce t...
The Miser and His Gold | 守财奴与金子
A miser who only hoarded and looked at his gold, never using it, loses it to a thief. A neighbor ...
Throwing a Baby into the River | 抱婴投江
A passerby questions a man who is about to throw a child into a river, believing the child will b...
Hercules and Plutus | 赫拉克勒斯与财神
Hercules snubs Plutus at a divine banquet, explaining to Jupiter that he dislikes the god of weal...
The Debtor and His Sow | 欠债人与母猪
An Athenian debtor, unable to pay, tries to sell his only sow at market. To impress a buyer, he a...
The Single Mesh | 一孔之见
A bird-catcher, after catching a bird in one mesh of his net, mistakenly believes a single-mesh n...
The Kingfisher's Nest | 翠鸟迁巢
The kingfisher repeatedly lowers its nest out of excessive protectiveness for its young, ultimate...
The Man Who Choked | 因噎废食
A man who ate ravenously choked to death on a fishbone. In a misguided response, someone banned e...
The Ant and the Grasshopper | 蚂蚁与蚱蜢
A hungry grasshopper begs an ant for food in winter, having sung all summer instead of preparing....