The Wild Ass and the Lion

by Aesop

Versions of The Wild Ass and the Lion include:

• "Of the Lyon and of the Cowe of the Goote and of the Sheep", translated by William Caxton, edited by Joseph Jacobs, in The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484 (1484)
• "A Lion, an Aſs, &c. a Hunting", in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692)
• "The Wild Ass and the Lion", translated by George Fyler Townsend, in Three Hundred Æsop's Fables (1867)
• "The Lion's Share", translated by Joseph Jacobs, edited by Joseph Jacobs, illustrated by Richard Heighway, in The Fables of Æsop (1894)
• "The Lion and the Wild Ass", translated by Vernon Stanley Jones, in Æsop's fables: A New Translation (1912)