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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 31. De la Grenouille & du Boeuf.
(Ne se comparer à plus gran que soy.)

For the Reader: A selection of Translations (mostly English), being those on hand at this writing..
Edition   Citation   Fable Title
Julien Macho, Lyon, 1480   II-20, fig. 71   du boeuf et de la grenouille
William Caxton, tr. (Steinhöwel) 1483   II-20   of the Oxe and of the frogge which wold have compared her to hym
Roger L'Estrange, tr, 1692   p. 97 [no. 35]   A Frog and an Oxe
Thomas Bewick, illus., 1818   n/a    
S.A. Handford, trans., 1954        
Edwin Perry, ed., trans. Barbrius and Phaedrus, 1965   p. 41 (B-28)
p. 219 (Ph. I-24
  The Toad who tried to be as big as an Ox
The Frog who burst herself and the Cow [note]
Olivia and Robert Temple (Chambry numbering), 1998        
Laura Gibbs, Aesop text project (WWW) Site active in 2002.   Perry 376    
Townsend   77   The Ox and the Frog
La Fontaine   I-3   La Grenouille qui veut se faire aussi grosse que le Boeuf

note:

The text that accompanies the de Tournes version of this fable seems to merge both versions reported by Perry.