Stories from Plato and other classic writers : Hesiod, Homer, Aristophanes, Ovid, Catullus, and Pliny (1895)
Burt, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1850-1918 · Boston : Ginn · leaf 52
nd. At last the birds flew straight upinto the air and of course the twotravellers had to follow them.When they had gone up far enoughthey came to a country where theyfound a king who had once been aman and had lived in the beautifulcity. But he too had become tiredof seeing people quarrel, and… … them, so they cried out at the topof their voices, Hoop! Hoop!Hoopoe! and the kings servantcame to the door. The servant was a very largebird, but he was frightened when 40 STORIES FROM PLATO he saw the travellers, for he wasafraid that they were a pair of bird-catchers, so he told them that…
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