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_Parallels._--I. _Ancient_: Plutarch, _Camillus_, 10; Dion. Halic.
excerp. Vatec. 13, 1; Frontinus, _Strat._ iv. 4, 1; Polyænus,
_Strat._ viii. 7; Val. Max. vi. 5, 1; Aur. Victor, _De vir. ill._
33; Zonar. vii. 32. II. _Modern_: _Enxemplos_, 187. III. _Modern_:
Gallensis, _Commumilog._ 1489, i. 11; H. Sachs, III. ii. 46; Hanmer,
_Hist. Roseng._ 1654, 437; _Acerra_, i. 100; Kirch, i. 18.
_Painter_, I. i. 39; II. i. 37; III. i. 66; IV. i. 80.]
XVIII. PAPYRIUS PRÆTEXTATUS.
The Hystorie of Papyrius Prætextatus [and how he misled his mother].
[_Source and Origin._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ i. 23.
_Parallels._--_Sabell. Exemp._ i. 3; Bruson, _Facet._ iv. 4; Wanley,
_Wonders_, III. xlvii. 4.
_Painter_, I. i. 41; II. i. 38; III. i. 69; IV. i. 83.]
XIX. PLUTARCH’S ANGER.
How Plutarche did beate his man, and of pretie talke touching signes of
anger.
[_Source and Origin._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ i. 26.
_Painter_, I. i. 42; II. i. 39; III. i. 71; IV. i. 85.]
XX. ÆSOP’S FABLE OF THE LARK.
A pretie tale drawne out of the Larke of Æsope.
[_Source._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ ii. 29.
_Origin and Parallels._--_Cf._ Caxton’s _Æsop_, ed. Jacobs, Ro.
i. 20; vol. i. p. 238.
_Painter_, I. i. 42; II. i. 40; III. i. 72; IV. i. 86.
_Derivates._--A ballad on the subject, entitled _A mirror most
true_, was licensed to Richard Jones 1576-7.]
XXI. HANNIBAL AND ANTIOCHUS.
A merie geste, uttered by Hanniball to King Antiochus.
[_Source and Origin._--A. Gellius.
_Painter_, I. i. 44; II. i. 41; III. i. 74; IV. i. 88.]
XXII. ANDRODUS.
The marueilous knowledge of a Lion, being acquainted with a man, called
Androdus.
[_Source._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ v. 14, 10.
_Origin and Parallels._--_Cf._ Caxton’s _Æsop_, ed. Jacobs, Ro. iii.
1, vol. i. p. 243.
_Painter_, I. i. 44; II. i. 41; III. i. 79; IV. i. 89.]
XXIII. FAVORINUS.
A pretie disputation of the philosopher Phauorinus, to perswade a woman
not to put forth her child to nursse, but to nourishe it herselfe with
her owne milke.
[_Source and Origin._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ xvii. 12.
_Painter_, I. i. 45; II. i. 42; III. i. 77; IV. i. 91.]
XXIV. SERTORIUS.
Of Sertorius, a noble Romaine capitaine.
[_Source and Origin._--A Gellius, _Noct. Att._
_Painter_, I. i. 48; II. i. 45; III. i. 81; IV. i. 95.
_Derivates._--A tragedy with this title, by J. Bancroft, appeared in
1679, but it is scarcely likely to have been derived from Painter.]
XXV. SIBYLLINE LEAVES.
Of the bookes of Sybilla.
[_Source._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ i. 19.
_Origin._--Pliny, _Hist. Nat._ xiii. 28.
_Painter_, I. i. 49; II. i. 46; III. i. 84; IV. i. 98.]
XXVI. MASTER AND SCHOLAR.
A difference and controuersie betwene a maister and a scholler, so
subtile that the iudges coulde not geue sentence.
[_Source and Origin._--A. Gellius.
_Painter_, I. i. 80; II. i. 46; III. i. 85; IV. i. 99.]
XXVII. SELEUCUS AND ANTIOCHUS.
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