Ramus
From The Seven Sages of Rome
The Branch
A roman citizen has a fruit tree in his orchard that has a particularly lovely branch, long and straight, upon which many fruits grow. The man's gardener tells him that he ought to cut off that branch, however, as unlike all the other branches, it is strong enough that theives might climb it and steal fruit from the tree. The man refuses to allow the beloved branch to be trimmed, and that night thieves break into the orchard, climb the tree using the branch, steal all the fruit, and leave it bare with all its branches broken.
| Critical Literature |
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| Gadsden (2020), Gadsden (2021), Nishimura (2001) |
| Ramus appears in the following versions and secondary versions |
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| Ramus appears in the following manuscripts |
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