The Lion, the Bear and the Fox The Lion, the Bear and the Fox The Lion, the Bear and the Fox is one of Aesop's Fables that is numbered 147 in the Perry Index. There are similar story types of both eastern and western origin in which two disputants lose the object of their dispute to a third. There are ancient Greek versions of the fable, and it was included in the Medici Manuscript collection of Aesop's fables dating from the 1470s. However, its earliest appearance in another language is as number 60 in the collection of 150 fables in Latin verse by the Austrian poet Pantaleon
Ancient Greek phonology to the ones that occurred later in Koine. This section primarily describes sound changes that occurred between the Mycenaean and Ancient Greek periods and during the Ancient Greek period. For sound changes occurring in Proto-Greek and in Koine Greek, see and Koine Greek phonology. In Proto-Greek, the PIE sibilant became by debuccalization in many cases. Clusters of and a sonorant (liquid or nasal) at the beginning of a word became a voiceless resonant in some forms of Archaic Greek. Voiceless remained in Attic at the beginning of words, and became the regular allophone of in this position; voiceless merged with