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The Ass and his Masters
The Ass (sometimes 'donkey') and his Masters is a fable that has also gone by the alternative titles The ass and the gardener and Jupiter and the ass. Included among Aesop's Fables, it is numbered 179 in the Perry Index.〔(Aesopica site )〕
==The fable==
The fable only appears in Greek sources in classical times. There an ass in the employ of a gardener complains to the king of the gods that he is not fed adequately and asks for a change of master. He is transferred to a potter and prays for another change because the loads are so heavy. Now he passes to a tanner and regrets leaving his first employer. At a time when slavery was common, the fable was applied to the dissatisfaction felt by slaves.〔William Fitzgerald, ''Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination'', Cambridge University 2000, (p.101 )〕
In Renaissance times two Neo-Latin poets contributed to making the story better known. Gabriele Faerno as ''Asinus dominus mutans'', with the moral that a change of master only brings worse;〔''Fabulae Centum'', (fable 69 )〕 and Hieronymus Osius as ''Asinus et olitor'' (The ass and the gardener), with the comment that habitual dissatisfaction always brings a desire for change.〔Aesopus Phryx, (fable 80 )〕 Jean de la Fontaine also added the story to his ''Fables'' with the even harsher comment that providence has better things to do than listen to those who are never satisfied.〔(VI.11 )〕
In Britain the fable was generally known under the title "The ass and Jupiter" and appears as such in the prose collections of Samuel Croxall,〔(Fable 118 )〕 Thomas Bewick,〔''The Fables of Aesop (p.79 )〕 and the poetical version of Brooke Boothby.〔(fable 16 )〕 The Dutch painter Dirck Stoop also made an etching of the fable under that title in 1655.〔(LACMA collection )〕
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