His telling follows the Babrius version in which an ox has stepped on a brood of young frogs and the father tries equaling the beast in size when told of it.
Horace places a different version of the story towards the end of a long conversation on the demented behaviour of mankind (Satires II.3, lines 314ff) where Damasippus accuses the poet of trying to keep up with his rich patron Maecenas. It is to this that Martial alludes in a short epigram (X.79) about two citizens trying to outdo each other by building in the suburbs. The story related by Phaedrus has a frog motivated by envy of the ox, illustrating the moral that ‘the needy man, while affecting to imitate the powerful, comes to ruin’. In some, the frog sees the ox and tries to equal him in size in others it is only told of an enormous beast by another and keeps swelling, asking at intervals, ‘Was it as big as this?’ The Story’s Useīoth Martial and Horace are among the Latin satiric writers who made use of the fable of the frog and the ox, although they refer to different versions of it. In some Classical sources the fable concludes with the moral: ‘Not all creatures can become as great as they think.’ There are various versions of the story. The story concerns a frog that tries to inflate itself to the size of an ox, but bursts in the attempt. OL17524525W Pages 46 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210111101532 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 175 Scandate 20210107115327 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781848109377 Tts_version 4.The Frog and the Ox appears among Aesop’s Fables. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:04:18 Associated-names Aesop Boxid IA40031105 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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