Escaped lamb delivers himself to shepherd rather than to slaughter

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Escaped lamb delivers himself to shepherd rather than to slaughter.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Choice between evils. · view the constellation · filed as J217.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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general Wienert FFC LVI 71 (ET 354), 115 (ST 252)
general Halm Aesop No. 377.

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Filed under Captivity preferred to death.

Filed beside it

Unsatisfactory life preferred to death Discontented ass longs for death but changes mind when he sees skins of dead asses at a fair

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