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| Aper appears in the following versions and secondary versions
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A (Seven Sages), Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Cardiff MS 2.83 (RMWL MS 6), Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Cardiff MS 3.4 (RMWL Cardiff MS 5), Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanover MS 13075B, Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanstephan MS 117, Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanstephan MS 171, Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanstephan MS 2., Admont Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 163, Admont Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 652, Anonymous Verse Version, Augsburg Universitätsbibliothek Cod. I. 2. 2° 22, Aventewr von Diocleciano, Bamberg Staatsbibliothek Msc. Class. 87, Basel Universitätsbibliothek Mscr. A IX 15, Basel Universitätsbibliothek UBH E II 3, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. Magdeb. 208 (excerpts within Gesta Romanorum), Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 184, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 409 (excerpts within Gesta Romanorum), Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 618, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 641, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 710, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. theol. lat. fol. 239, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. theol. lat. qu. 109, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. theol. lat. qu. 151, Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. theol. lat. qu. 272, Bern Burgerbibliothek Cod. 723, British Library, Additional MS 15685, Brno Moravská knihovna RKP-0048.042 (Rkp 84), Brno Moravský zemský archiv Cerr II 361, Brussel Koninklijke Bibliotheek 9245, Bühnenfassung / Stage adaptation: Sebastian Wild, Tragedj, Cambridge University Library MS Dd.1.17, Cambridge University Library MS Ff. 2, 38, Cambridge University Library MS Gg.6.28, Colmar Bibliothèque Municipale Ms. 55, Colmar Bibliothèque des Dominicains CPC 6 (278), D (Sept Sages de Rome), Dresden Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Mscr. Dresd. C 398, Dresden Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Mscr. Dresd. F 61a, Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Mscr. Dresd. F 61a, Early Modern and Modern Welsh Version A, Edinburgh National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1, Auchinleck Manuscript, Edinburgh National Library of Scotland MS. 16500, Asloan Manuscript, Eichstätt Universitätsbibliothek Cod. st 698, Erasto, Erlangen Universitätsbibliothek Ms. B 11, French A/L Overlap, French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages, Gdańsk PAN Biblioteka Gdańska Ms. 1974, German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus, German Version H, H (Historia Septem Sapientum), Hans von Bühel, Dyocletianus Leben, Hebrew Group A, Hebrew Group B, Hebrew Prints, I (Versio Italica), Il Libro dei Sette Savi, K (Sept Sages de Rome), L (Sept Sages de Rome), L'Amabile di Continentia, Latin Mishle Sendebar, Latin Version A: Allegatio/Libellus, Latin Version H, Libro de los Engaños, London British Library Cotton Galba E IX, London British Library Egerton 1995, M ('Male Marastre'), Madrid Real Academia Española 'El Conde Lucanor', Ms. 15, Middle English Version A, Middle Welsh Version A, Mishle Sendebar, Old Swedish Redaction C, Old Swedish Version A: Sju vise mästare, Old Swedish Version H: Sju vise mästare, Older Scots Version A: Buke of the Sevyne Sagis, Oxford Balliol College Library MS 354 (Richard Hill's Commonplace Book), Oxford Bodleian Library Jesus College MS. 111, Oxford Bodleian Library Jesus College MS. 20, Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson poet. 175, Paris Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 3354, Paris Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 3516, Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 573, Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 95, Polish Version H, Prosafassung / Prose Version, S (Scala Coeli), Scots Version H: Rolland, Seuin Seages, Spanish Version H: Los Siete Sabios de Roma, Storia d'una Crudele Matrigna, Storia di Stefano, Thystorye of ye vii wyse Maysters of rome (English, 16th c.), Versfassung / Verse Version, Versio Italica (Latin), Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein
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Frightened of a fierce, huge boar, a herdsman escapes up a fruit-tree. He throws down fruit which the boar eats until it is full, and unable to pursue the herdsman, nor defend itself when he descends and kills it. In some versions (e.g., Mischle Sendebar), the boar eats until it bursts; in other versions, it is a monkey who tricks the boar.
The accompanying moral is consistent: the emperor should, like the boar, be wary of being tricked by sweet words that will render him defenseless.
Along with Avis, Senescalcus, and Canis, Aper is one of the inset tales that appears in both 'Eastern' and 'Western' versions of the Seven Sages.