641. Coclea et Iuppiter. Cum Iuppiter ab exordio mundi singulis animalibus munera quae petiissent elargiretur, coclea ab eo petiit ut domum suam posset circumferre. Interrogata a Iove quare tale ab eo munus exposceret, quod illi grave et molestum futurum erat, “Malo,” inquit, “tam grave onus perpetuo ferre quam, cum mihi libuerit, malum vicinum non posse vitare.”
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M0641 (not in Perry). Source: Abstemius 71. This fable is not in Perry’s catalog; Perry omitted most of Abstemius’s fables. Compare the fable about the turtle and her shell, #633.
