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Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien, mises en Ryme Francoise.
Auec la vie dudit Esope extraite de plusieurs autheurs par M. Antoine du Moulin Masconnois.
A Lyon, Par Iean de Tournes, & Guillaume Gazeau. 1547.

Fable 4. Du Chien & de la piece de chair.
(Ne convoiter choses incertaines.)

For the Reader: A selection of Translations (mostly English), being those on hand at this writing..
Edition   Citation   Fable Title
Julien Macho, tr, Lyon, 1480   I-5, fig. 35   du chien et la piece de char
William Caxton, tr. (Steinhöwel) 1483   I-5   of the dogge and of the pyece of flesshe
Roger L'Estrange, tr, 1692   p. 53   A Dog and a Shadow
Thomas Bewick, illus., 1818   p. 117   The Dog and the Shadow
S.A. Handford, trans., 1954   p. 122, no. 118   Substance and Shadow
Edwin Perry, ed., trans. Barbrius and Phaedrus, 1965   p. 99 (Babrius I, 79),
p. 197 (Ph. I, 4)
  The Dog and his Shadow
The Dog carrying a piece of Meat across the River
Olivia and Robert Temple (Chambry numbering), 1998   p. 137, no. 185   The Dog who carried the Meat
Aesop text project (WWW) Active 2002.   Perry 133    
Townsend   15   The Dog and the Shadow
La Fontaine   VI-17   Le Chien qui lâche la proie pour l'ombre