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It has usually been applied to socio-economic relations. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Versions_of_the_fable">Versions of the fable</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Frog_and_the_Ox&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Versions of the fable"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are Classical versions of the story in both Greek and Latin, as well as several Latin retellings in medieval times. One by <a href="/wiki/Walter_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter of England">Walter of England</a> is in verse and was followed in Renaissance times by a <a href="/wiki/Neo-Latin" title="Neo-Latin">Neo-Latin</a> poem by <a href="/wiki/Hieronymus_Osius" title="Hieronymus Osius">Hieronymus Osius</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In some sources, the frog sees the ox and tries to equal it in size; in others the frog is only told of an enormous beast by another and keeps swelling, asking at intervals, 'Was it as big as this?' </p><p>Both <a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a> and <a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a> are among the Latin satiric poets who made use of the fable of the frog and the ox, although they refer to different versions of it. The story related by <a href="/wiki/Phaedrus_(fabulist)" title="Phaedrus (fabulist)">Phaedrus</a> has a frog motivated by envy of the ox, illustrating the moral that 'the needy man, while affecting to imitate the powerful, comes to ruin'.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is to this that Martial alludes in a short epigram (X.79) about two citizens trying to outdo each other by building in the suburbs.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Horace places a different version of the story towards the end of a long conversation on the demented behaviour of mankind (Satires II.3) where Damasippus accuses the poet of trying to keep up with his rich patron <a href="/wiki/Maecenas" class="mw-redirect" title="Maecenas">Maecenas</a>. His telling follows the <a href="/wiki/Babrius" title="Babrius">Babrius</a> version in which an ox has stepped on a brood of young frogs and the father tries equaling the beast in size when told of it.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Liebig_grenouille.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Liebig_grenouille.JPG/275px-Liebig_grenouille.JPG" decoding="async" width="275" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Liebig_grenouille.JPG/413px-Liebig_grenouille.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Liebig_grenouille.JPG 2x" data-file-width="541" data-file-height="359" /></a><figcaption>A 19th-century <a href="/wiki/Meat_extract" title="Meat extract">meat extract</a> trade card with the first two lines of the La Fontaine's version.</figcaption></figure> <p>The folly of trying to keep up with the Joneses is the conclusion drawn by <a href="/wiki/La_Fontaine%27s_Fables" title="La Fontaine's Fables">La Fontaine's Fables</a> from the Phaedrus version of the tale, applying it to the artistocratic times in which La Fontaine lived ("The frog that wished to be as big as the ox", Fables I.3): </p> <dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd>This world of ours is full of foolish creatures too –</dd> <dd>Commoners want to build chateaux;</dd> <dd>Each princeling wants his royal retinue;</dd> <dd>Each count his squires. And so it goes.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> <p>Two similar stories existed in Greek sources but were never adopted in the rest of Europe. There is a <a href="/wiki/Quatrain" title="Quatrain">quatrain</a> in Babrius concerning an earthworm that envied the length of a snake and burst in two while stretching itself to equal it. This is number 268 in the Perry Index.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the other fable, numbered 371 by Perry, a lizard destroys itself in a similar way. The moral given is that 'This is what happens to someone who competes with his superiors: he destroys himself before he can equal them.'<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are also African variations on the theme, including one related among the <a href="/wiki/Fon_people" title="Fon people">Fon people</a> of <a href="/wiki/Benin" title="Benin">Benin</a> in which a frog competes similarly against an ox until it bursts. The moral of this tale is that ambitions should be kept moderate.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In some other communities there are proverbs based on such stories, as for example, "The frog imitated the elephant and burst" in <a href="/wiki/Kirundi" title="Kirundi">Kirundi</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in <a href="/wiki/Amharic" title="Amharic">Amharic</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in the <a href="/wiki/Chewa_language" title="Chewa language">Chewa language</a> of <a href="/wiki/Zambia" title="Zambia">Zambia</a>, simply "The proud frog burst open" in an attempt to seem more than he was.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Artistic_uses">Artistic uses</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Frog_and_the_Ox&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Artistic uses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aesop_frog%26ox.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Aesop_frog%26ox.jpg/220px-Aesop_frog%26ox.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="304" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Aesop_frog%26ox.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="280" data-file-height="387" /></a><figcaption><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Rae_(artist)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Rae (artist) (page does not exist)">John Rae's</a> illustration to <i>Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks</i>, 1918</figcaption></figure> <p>The fable was a favourite in England and was put to popular use on 18th century china by the <a href="/wiki/Fenton,_Staffordshire" title="Fenton, Staffordshire">Fenton</a> pottery<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in the 19th century by the <a href="/wiki/Wedgwood" title="Wedgwood">Wedgwood</a> pottery. This was on its Aesop series of coloured plates, signed by <a href="/wiki/Emile_Lessore" class="mw-redirect" title="Emile Lessore">Emile Lessore</a> in the 1860s.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Minton's pottery also used the fable on a series of Aesop tiles a little later. In France a biscuit porcelain figure group illustrating the fable was issued by the Haffreingue porcelain factory at Boulogne between 1857–1859. The ox is modeled lying on the ground and looking down at the frog directly in front.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other uses have been the appearance of the fable on stamps during the centenary of La Fontaine's death in 1995. In France it was on one of a strip of six 2,80 franc stamps, each illustrating a different fable; in Albania the fable appears by itself on the 25 leke stamp and as part of the over-all design of the 60 leke commemorative.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Then on the 400th centenary of La Fontaine's birth in 2021, <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a> featured it on the four-stamp commemorative sheet designed by Zsolt Vidák.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among the composers who have set the fable are the following: </p> <ul><li>W. Langton Williams (c. 1832–1896) in his <i>Aesop's Fables, versified & arranged for the piano forte</i> (London, 1890)<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Lecocq" title="Charles Lecocq">Charles Lecocq</a>, the third piece in his <i>Six Fables de Jean de la Fontaine</i> for voice and piano (1900)</li> <li>Mabel Wood Hill in her "Aesop's Fables Interpreted Through Music" (1920)<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcelle_de_Manziarly" title="Marcelle de Manziarly">Marcelle de Manziarly</a>, the third piece in <i>Trois Fables de La Fontaine</i> (1935) for voice and piano</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Bonneau" title="Paul Bonneau">Paul Bonneau</a> in <i>10 Fables de La Fontaine</i> for a cappella duet (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marie-Madeleine_Chevalier" class="mw-redirect" title="Marie-Madeleine Chevalier">Marie-Madeleine Chevalier</a>-Duruflé as the first in her <i>6 Fables de La Fontaine</i> (1960) for a cappella female voices<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Fran%C3%A7aix" title="Jean Françaix">Jean Françaix</a> for 4 male voices and piano (1963)</li> <li>Edward Hughes, as the third in his ten <i>Songs from Aesop's Fables</i> for children's voices and piano (1965), in a version by Peter Westmore</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andre_Asriel" title="Andre Asriel">Andre Asriel</a>, <i>Der Frosch und der Ochse</i>, the second in his <i>6 Fabeln nach Aesop</i> for mixed <a href="/wiki/A_cappella" title="A cappella">a cappella</a> voices (1972)<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isabelle_Aboulker" title="Isabelle Aboulker">Isabelle Aboulker</a> among the seven in her children's operetta <i>La Fontaine et le Corbeau</i> (1977)<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Ballif" title="Claude Ballif">Claude Ballif</a>, the third of his <i>Chansonettes : 5 Fables de La Fontaine</i> for small mixed choir (Op.72, Nº1 1995)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Xavier_Benguerel_i_God%C3%B3&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Xavier Benguerel i Godó (page does not exist)">Xavier Benguerel i Godó</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Benguerel_i_God%C3%B3" class="extiw" title="ca:Xavier Benguerel i Godó">ca</a>]</span>, the sixth piece in his <i>7 Fabulas de la Fontaine</i> (1995) for orchestra and narration (in both Catalan and Spanish translations)<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Cosma" title="Vladimir Cosma">Vladimir Cosma</a>, the second piece in his <i>Eh bien ! Dansez maintenant</i>, a <a href="/wiki/Divertissement" title="Divertissement">divertissement</a> for narrator and symphony orchestra (2006), in this case styled as a <a href="/wiki/Mazurka" title="Mazurka">mazurka</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Eric Saint-Marc, a setting for women's choir, piano and string quartet (2014)<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Frog_and_the_Ox&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2013-02-28</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Aesopica+site&rft.pub=Mythfolklore.net&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmythfolklore.net%2Faesopica%2Fperry%2F371.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Frog+and+the+Ox" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Malaisse, Jules Aloni Komanda et al, <i>Quelques proverbes concernant les grenouilles et les crapauds en Afrique subsaharienne</i>, Geo-Eco-Trop, 2021, 45.2 : 221–240.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Komanda et al, 2021, p. 232</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Daniel Aberra, የዐማርኛ ምሳሌያዊ አባባሎች የዐማርኛ ምሳሌያዊ ብሒሎ ች የዐማርኛ ምሳሌያዊ ንግግሮች የዐማርኛ ተረትና ምሳሌዎች/ <i>Amharic proverbs, Amharic parables, Amharic myths</i>, 2020, p. 344</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kessel, Toon van, <i>Dzedzere-dzedzere salingana nkugweratu: Collection of 1000 Chewa proverbs</i>, Fenza Press Lusaka, p. 38, 2015</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O195636/plate">"Victoria & Albert Museum"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2013-02-28</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Victoria+%26+Albert+Museum&rft.pub=Collections.vam.ac.uk&rft.date=2013-02-05&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcollections.vam.ac.uk%2Fitem%2FO281806%2Fplate&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Frog+and+the+Ox" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O99652/figure-group-the-frog-and-the-ox">"Victoria & Albert Museum"</a>. Collections.vam.ac.uk. 2013-02-05<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2013-02-28</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Victoria+%26+Albert+Museum&rft.pub=Collections.vam.ac.uk&rft.date=2013-02-05&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcollections.vam.ac.uk%2Fitem%2FO99652%2Ffigure-group-the-frog-and-the-ox&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Frog+and+the+Ox" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Illustrations appear under the Thursday, July 24, 2008 entry of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://my-philately.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html">My Philately blog</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eshop.posta.hu/storefront/en/stamps/stamps/jean-de-la-fontaine-was-born-400-years-ago/prod2021090040011.html">Magyar Posta</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">PDF at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://static.torontopubliclibrary.ca/da/pdfs/37131009552191d.pdf">Toronto University</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Score <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.action;jsessionid=30700D0F9F7E51EB09864FD05D437FB8?institutionalItemId=20901">online</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The first page of the music appears on the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.musimem.com/durufle-mm.htm">Musimem site</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ctr3Gb1omU">"Performance on YouTube"</a>. 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