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This is a very unusual fable, in that it takes a traditional Aesop's fable about people (specifically, about a drowning boy and a man on the riverbank - Perry 211) and retells that story with animal characters: a fox stuck in a well and a wolf. I believe the fable originates with Faernus - at least, that is the earliest Latin version I can find! If anyone else knows more about the history of this particular fable, please let me know! Here is Faernus's version of the story:

Faernus 49. Vulpes et Lupus.

In puteum ab alto lapsa vulpes margine,

iamiam profundis haurienda aquis erat.

Misera ergo ab adventante forte illuc lupo

supplex petivit, fune demisso extrahi.

Ille otiosi more, quaerere institit,

quo lapsa pacto, quo fuisset tempore.

Prius eripe hinc me, dum licet, vulpes ait,

Deinde audies omne ordine, ut factum siet.

In re arta amici ne esse cunctator velis.

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