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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 12. Du Lyon, du Porc, du Taureau & de l'Asne.
(Acquisition d'amys.)

For the Reader: A selection of Translations (mostly English), being those on hand at this writing..
Edition   Citation   Fable Title
Julien Macho, Lyon, 1480   I-16, fig. 46   not reproduced
William Caxton, tr. (Steinhöwel) 1483   I-16   of the Lyon of the wyld bore of the bool and of the asse
Roger L'Estrange, tr, 1692   p. 69 [no. 15]   An Old Lion
Thomas Bewick, illus., 1818   p. 211   The Old Lion
S.A. Handford, trans., 1954        
Edwin Perry, ed., trans. Barbrius and Phaedrus, 1965   p.217 (Ph. I, 21)   The old Lion, the Boar, the Bull, and the Ass
Olivia and Robert Temple (Chambry numbering), 1998   n/a ?    
Laura Gibbs, Aesop text project (WWW) Site active in 2002.   Perry 481    
Townsend   119   The Old Lion
La Fontaine   III-14   Le Lion malade