<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Ox and the Frog </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Ox and the Frog </Td> </Tr> <P> The Frog and the Ox appears among Aesop's Fables and is numbered 376 in the Perry Index . The story concerns a frog that tries to inflate itself to the size of an ox, but bursts in the attempt . It has usually been applied to socio - economic relations . </P> <P> There are Classical versions of the story in both Greek and Latin, as well as several Latin retellings in Mediaeval times . One by Walter of England is in verse and was followed in Renaissance times by a Neo-Latin poem by Hieronymus Osius . 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>

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