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    The Satyr and the Traveller (or Peasant) is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 35 in the Perry Index. The popular idiom 'to blow hot and cold' is associated...
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  • Sea The Rose and the Amaranth The Satyr and the Traveller The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea The Sick Kite The Snake and the Crab The Snake and the Farmer...
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    The Scorpion and the Frog is an animal fable which teaches that vicious people cannot resist hurting others even when it is not in their own interests...
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    need, as in the fable of The Satyr and the Traveller, in the title of which Latin authors substituted the word Faunus. Fauns and satyrs were originally...
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    Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and glossed by the Oxford English Dictionary as meaning to make false claims, with the result that subsequent true...
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    the Doctor The Old Woman and the Wine-jar The Oxen and the Creaking Cart The Rivers and the Sea The Rose and the Amaranth The Satyr and the Traveller...
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    told as follows: A satyr ranging in the forest in winter, came across a traveller half starved with the cold. He took pity on him and invited him to go...
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    Nasreddin (category Humor and wit characters)
    fables. The miller, his son and the donkey is one example. Others are "The Ass with a Burden of Salt" (Perry Index 180) and "The Satyr and the Traveller". In...
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    Avianus (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    capella De cornice et urna - The Crow and the Pitcher De rustico et iuvenco De viatore et fauno - The Satyr and the Traveller De apro et coco De mure et...
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    and the Tortoise 58. Satyrus et homo - The Satyr and the Traveller 59. Mures et feles - The Cat and the Mice 60. Vulpes et aquila - The Eagle and the...
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