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In medieval prose Phædrus.

In medieval prose Phaedrus. Cf. Grimm, Märchen, v.

Phædrus, iv. 19. Probably Indian, occurring in Mahabharata. The versions vary as to the threatened victim. In some it is the peasant himself; in others, it is one of his children after he arrives home. In one of the medieval prosings of Phædrus, by Ademar, a woman finds and nourishes the serpent.

Phædrus, iv. 31. Probably Indian, from the Makasa Jātaka, in which a foolish son takes up an axe to kill a fly which is worrying his father's bald pate, but naturally misses the fly.

Phædrus, i. 26. Occurs also in Plutarch, ''Symp. Quæst.'' 1. 5.

Phædrus, i. 7. In Caxton this becomes "The Wolf and the Skull," and so loses all point.