Sterling silver Aesop fox crow story pendant bracelet charm medal coin medallion

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Sterling silver Aesop fox crow story pendant bracelet charm medal coin medallion:
$134.95

Take a look at this highly detailed fox and crow story scene scene coin style medal or medallion pendant or bracelet charm piece (or possibly watch fob); it is 1 &1/8\" tall, 1 &1/16\" wide, and is hallmarked sterling on the front, by the tree. It is solid, not hollow or a \'punched\' piece, with raised detail, and a nice hefty weight! The back is unadorned, and although quite nicked, does not show when worn. This is an upcycled piece, it has had a loop added to the top, and a button shank removed from the back. The story is an old morality tale:In the fable a crow has found a piece of cheese and retired to a branch to eat it. A fox, wanting the cheese for himself, flatters the crow, calling it beautiful and wondering whether its voice is as sweet to match. When the crow lets out a caw, the cheese falls and is devoured by the fox.
The earliest surviving versions of the fable, in both Greek and Latin, date from the 1st century of the Common Era. Evidence that it was well known before then comes in the poems of the Latin poet Horace, who alludes to it twice. Addressing a maladroit sponger called Scaeva in his Epistles, the poet counsels guarded speech for \'if the crow could have fed in silence, he would have had better fare, and much less of quarreling and of envy\'.[2] Then in a Satire on legacy-hunting, we find the lines
A season’d Scrivener, bred in Office low,Full often mocks, and dupes the gaping crow.[3]The poem has generally been taken as a caution against listening to flatterers. Phaedrus prefaces his Latin poem with the warning that the one \'who takes delight in treacherous flattery usually pays the penalty by repentance and disgrace\'. One of the few who gives it a different interpretation is Odo of Cheriton, whose lesson is that virtue is forgotten in the pursuit of ambition.[4] Babrius has the fox end with a joke at the crow\'s credulity in his Greek version of the story: \'You were not dumb, it seems, you have indeed a voice; you have everything, Sir Crow, except brains.\'[5] In La Fontaine\'s Fables (I.2), the fox delivers the moral by way of recompense for the tidbit. In Norman Shapiro\'s translation: