Aesop with the unbent bow. Upbraided when found playing with children, he unstrings a bow and shows how good relaxation is

Motif

Aesop with the unbent bow. Upbraided when found playing with children, he unstrings a bow and shows how good relaxation is.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Prudence and Discretion. · Zeal – temperate and intemperate. · view the constellation · filed as J553.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Wienert FFC LVI 40
general Phaedrus III No. 14
general Thiele Hermes XLI 585
general Alphabet Nos. 6, 671.

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Filed under Intemperance in work.

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Ruler interrupts meeting of Senate to amuse his small son. When rebuked for making him a whistle he says: "I would have blown it for him had he asked me to do so."

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