An Ass was being driven along a road leading down the mountain side, when he suddenly took it into his silly head to choose his own path. What! Yet he imagined that all he needed to make himself fit for the society of the Peacocks was a dress like theirs. Why, you have to fight hard for every bite you get. The Fox just as quickly jumped on the Goat's back and leaped from the tip of the Goat's horns out of the well. Your honor, he said, the case has now been pending for six weeks. Why do you do that? asked the Satyr. Thus it happened that the axe slipped and flew out of his hands into the pool. The Lion felt a flash of anger. And they say that ever after, while the Eagle's eggs lie in the nest in spring, the Beetle still sleeps in the ground.For so Jupiter commanded.
It is unwise to treat old friends badly for the sake of new ones.