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Fable · Story The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) Ancient Greek fable tradition · Townsend translation Story
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THE PIGEONS, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk to defend them. He at once consented. When they had admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite could pounce upon in a whole year. Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.
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Author / source Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation)
Period Ancient Greek fable tradition · Townsend translation
Form Story
Languages English
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Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables · George Fyler Townsend translation · Fable 080: The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons
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