188. Talpa, Asinus, et Simia. Asinus et simia, simul aliquando confabulantes, coeperunt de Natura, omnium parente, conqueri: ille quod erga se, illiberalis, cornua non dedisset, suae defensioni necessaria; haec vicissim quod caudam non esset largita, nudis natibus operiendis oportunam. Audiebat talpa colloquentes, ad quos “Tacete,” inquit, “ambo, et cessate murmurare, cum me oculis captam patienter sustinere videtis.”
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M0188 (not in Perry). Source: Irenaeus 81. This fable is not in Perry’s catalog; it is based on Abstemius 18, and Perry omitted most of Abstemius’s fables. For a fable about the monkey seeking a tail, see #114.
