De accipitre columbam insequente

Title: De accipitre columbam insequente: Hawk and Dove

Source: Aesop's Fables, 1687 (illustrated by Francis Barlow).

Parallels: This is one of the fables of Abstemius, not found (to my knowledge) in the Greco-Roman Aesopic corpus. You can read an English translation of Abstemius by Sir Roger L'Estrange at aesopica.net. For a classical parallel, see the story of the man and the weasel.

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