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# XX. the Ass in the Lion's Skin.

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XX. the Ass in the Lion's Skin. of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 19 sentences and 144 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/2/) — \_--The \_Siha Camma Jataka\_, Fausböll, No. 189, trans.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/3/) — Rhys-Davids, pp. v. vi.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/4/) — \_Parallels.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/5/) — \_--It also occurs in Somadeva, \_Katha Sarit Sagara\_, ed.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/6/) — Tawney, ii.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/7/) — 65, and \_n\_.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/8/) — For Æsopic parallels \_cf.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/9/) — \_ my \_Æsop\_, Av. iv.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/10/) — It is in Babrius, ed.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/11/) — Gitlbaur, 218 (from Greek prose Æsop, ed.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/12/) — Halm, No. 323), and Avian, ed.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/13/) — Ellis, 5, whence it came into the modern Æsop.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/14/) — \_Remarks.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/15/) — \_--Avian wrote towards the end of the third century, and put into Latin mainly those portions of Babrius which are unparalleled by Phædrus.
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/16/) — Consequently, as I have shown, he has a much larger proportion of Eastern elements than Phædrus.
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/17/) — There can be little doubt that the Ass in the Lion's Skin is from India.
- [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/18/) — As Prof.
- [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/19/) — Rhys-Davids remarks, the Indian form gives a plausible motive for the masquerade which is wanting in the ordinary Æsopic version.

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