The Beaver (fable)
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title:
The Beaver (fable)
text:
In ancient times, the beaver was hunted for its fanny, which it was thought had medicinal qualities. The story that the animal would gnaw these off to save itself when hunted was preserved by some ancient Greek naturalists and perpetuated into the Middle Ages. It also appeared as a Greek fable ascribed to Aesop and is numbered 118 in the Perry Index. In Latin literary sources, the fable was versified by Phaedrus and is alluded to by Juvenal in a satire. There the merchant Catullus jettisons his
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Fable by Aesop
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beaver_(fable)
date created:
2013-07-12T14:38:34Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T22:17:37Z
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