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The Miser and his Gold
The Miser and his Gold (or Treasure) is one of Aesop's Fables that deals directly with human weaknesses, in this case the wrong use of possessions. Since this is a story dealing only with humans, it allows the point to be made directly through the medium of speech rather than be surmised from the situation. It is numbered 225 in the Perry Index.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=THE MAN AND HIS GOLD )〕
==Aesop's Fable==
The basic story concerns a miser who reduced his riches to a lump of gold, which he buried. Coming back to view it every day, he was spied on and his treasure stolen. As the man bewailed his loss, he was consoled by a neighbour that he might as well bury a stone (or return to look at the hole) and it would serve the same purpose for all the good his money had done him or that he had done with his money.
Since versions of the fable were confined to Greek, it only began to gain greater currency during the European Renaissance. Gabriele Faerno made it the subject of a Latin poem in his ''Centum Fabulae'' (1563).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Imaginibus in aes incisis, notisque illustrata. Studio Othonis Vaeni ... )〕 In England it was included in collections of Aesop's fables by Roger L'Estrange as "A miser burying his gold"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=144. A MISER BURYING HIS GOLD (Sir Roger L'Estrange) )〕 and by Samuel Croxall as "The covetous man".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fables of Æsop, and others: )〕
Appreciating the cut and thrust of the argument, the composer Jerzy Sapieyevski included the fable as the fourth his ''Aesop Suite'' (1984), set for brass quintet and narrator, as an example of how ‘musical elements lurk in gifted oratorical arguments’.〔There is a performance online at the (Music Happens site )〕
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