Jupiter And The Monkey
Aesop Fable: Jupiter And The Monkey
Jupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts of the
forest and promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring
should be deemed the handsomest.
The Monkey came
with the rest and presented, with all a mother’s tenderness,
a flat-nosed, hairless, ill-featured young Monkey as a
candidate for the promised reward.
A general laugh saluted
her on the presentation of her son. She resolutely said, "I
know not whether Jupiter will allot the prize to my son,
but this I do know, that he is at least in the eyes of me his
mother, the dearest, handsomest, and most beautiful of
all."
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