Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)
169. THE WOLF AND THE LION
Perry 347 (Syntipas
52)
A wolf had seized a young pig and was carrying it away when he ran into
a lion. The lion immediately took the pig away from him. After having
to surrender the pig, the wolf said to himself, 'I wondered myself how
what I acquired by theft could possibly have stayed with me.'
The fable shows that if someone acquires other people's property by
fraud or force, he cannot expect to keep it.
Source:
Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura
Gibbs.
Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002.
NOTE: New
cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.
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