THE GOAT AND THE VINE

Perry's Index to the Aesopica

Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:

THE GOAT AND THE VINE

The vine was covered with clusters of grapes and its shoots were as vigorous as its fruit. A goat began to eat the vine, indulging his outrageous appetite. He had already wreaked havoc on the fresh shoots when the vine said to him, 'You will pay for this outrage! The time will soon come when you will be sent as a holy victim to be sacrificed, and I myself will be the one to supply the wine for the libation!'
The things that a person does to others will happen to him in turn.

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.

Perry 374: Gibbs (Oxford) 157 [English]
Perry 374: Townsend 71 [English]
Perry 374: Aphthonius 37 [Greek]
Perry 374: Chambry 339 [Greek]

You can find a compilation of Perry's index to the Aesopica in the gigantic appendix to his edition of Babrius and Phaedrus for the Loeb Classical Library (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1965). This book is an absolute must for anyone interested in the Aesopic fable tradition. Invaluable.