The Fox and the Crow (Aesop)

A 19th century Minton tile illustrating the fable

The Fox and the Crow is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 124 in the Perry Index. There are early Latin and Greek versions and the fable may even have been portrayed on an ancient Greek vase.[1] The story is used as a warning against listening to flattery.

  1. ^ History of the Graeco-Latin Fable, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Leiden 1999, vol 3, p. 161, available at Google Books