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The Satyr and the Traveller

Aesop

The Satyr and the Traveller is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 35 in the Perry Index. The popular idiom 'to blow hot and cold' is associated with it and the fable is read as a warning against duplicity.

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“I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.”

Aesop book The Satyr and the Traveller

The Man and the Satyr.

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