"The Fox and the Crow," from Aesop's Fables "A crow was sitting on a branch of a tree with a piece of cheese in her beak when a Fox observed her and set his wits to work to discover some way of getting the cheese. "Coming and standing under the tree he looked up and said, '...
“Aesop” in Greece, was translated into Middle Persian in the 6th century; intoArabicin the 8th century; and intoHebrew,Greek, andLatinsoon thereafter.Sir Thomas North’s English translation appeared in 1570. Another noteworthy collection isKathasaritsagara(“Ocean of Rivers of Stories”), a ...