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The Dog and the Wolf : ウィキペディア英語版 | The Dog and the Wolf The Dog and the Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 346 in the Perry Index.〔(Aesopica site )〕 It has been popular since antiquity as an object lesson of how freedom should not be exchanged for comfort or financial gain. An alternative fable with the same moral concerning different animals is less well known. ==Freedom is sweet==
A famished wolf meets a well-fed dog and compliments him on his sleek appearance. The dog describes his life of ease and invites the wolf to join him. As they go on their way, the wolf asks why the fur about the dog's neck is worn away. He replies that it is merely caused by the collar he has to wear at home. The wolf then leaves him, declaring that a full belly is a poor price to pay for liberty. That the fable dates from before Aesop's time is suggested by a single line surviving from a poem by Archilochos in which the question is asked 'what has caused the scruff of his neck to become so worn'.〔Gert-Jan van Dijk, ''Ainoi, logoi, mythoi'' Leiden NL, (pp.147-8 )〕 It is conjectured that this refers to some early version of the fable, which is well attested in later Greek sources, including the collection of Babrius, as well as in the Latin collection of Phaedrus. The fable was also well known in the Middle Ages, was included in William Caxton's collection, and was made the subject of a Neo-Latin poem by Hieronymus Osius.〔''Phryx Aesopus'' (Fable 58 )〕 Jean de la Fontaine contributed to the story's continuing popularity by making it the subject of one of his fables (''Le loup et le chien'', I.5).〔(An online translation )〕 In modern times the text has been set for piano and high voice by the French composer Isabelle Aboulker.〔(A performance on YouTube )〕
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