The silver of the tax

   .--An allusion to the French

    gabelle

   , or old salt tax, which, like all taxes levied upon the mass of the people, was a very productive one. Its collection caused several peasants' insurrections.

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    5

   ] Phaedrus, III. 7.--The references to the Fables of Phaedrus are to Bohn's edition, which is from the critical edition of Orellius, 1831.

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    6

   ] Phaedrus, I. 5. From this fable come the French proverbial expression,

    la part du lion

   , and its English equivalent, the "lion's share."

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    7

   ] One of Aesop's: Phaedrus also gives it, Book IV. 10.

   [

    8

   ] Aesop.

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    9

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