Folk Tale

The Proud Frog

Translated From

Rana Rupta et Bos

AuthorPhaedrus
Book TitleFabulae Aesopiae
Publication Date41
LanguageLatin

Other Translations / Adaptations

Text titleLanguageAuthorPublication Date
La rana e il bueItalian__
Лопнувшая лягушка и быкRussianНиколай Шатерников_
La Grenouille et le BoeufFrench__
AuthorC. Smart
Book TitleThe Fables of Phaedrus
Publication Date1887
LanguageEnglish
OriginItaly

When poor men to expenses run, And ape their betters, they 're undone. An Ox the Frog a-grazing view'd, And envying his magnitude, She puffs her wrinkled skin, and tries To vie with his enormous size: Then asks her young to own at least That she was bigger than the beast. They answer, No. With might and main She swells and strains, and swells again. "Now for it, who has got the day ?" The Ox is larger still, they say. At length, with more and more ado, She raged and puffed, and burst in two.


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