The Elm and the Vine were associated particularly by Latin authors. Because pruned elm trees acted as vine supports, this was taken as a symbol of marriage...

characterizes the elm as "loving the vine": ulmus amat vitem, vitis non deserit ulmum (the elm loves the vine, the vine does not desert the elm), and the ancients...

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...

The Frogs and the Sun The Frogs Who Desired a King The Grasshopper and the Ants The Goat and the Vine The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs The Hare in flight...

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...

Snake The Elm and the Vine The Fox and the Cat The Gourd and the Palm-tree The Hawk and the Nightingale The Hare and many friends The Hedgehog and the Snake...

Esop and other fabulists. Instead he used an adaptation of The Elm and the Vine in the book's third section of 'original fables'. There a pert vine refuses...

been understood by 16th and 17th century viewers. Primary of these is the elm and vine tree in the center of the composition. The painting depicts a scene...

both the miser and the usurer were guilty of the cardinal sin of avarice and shared behaviours. According to the parable of the Elm and the Vine in the quasi-Biblical...

The field elm (Ulmus minor) cultivar 'Atinia' , commonly known as the English elm, formerly common elm and horse may, and more lately the Atinian elm...