The Old Lion
Aesop Fable: The Old Lion
A lion, worn out with years and powerless from disease,
lay on the ground at the point of death. A Boar rushed
upon him, and avenged with a stroke of his tusks a longremembered
injury.
Shortly afterwards the Bull with his
horns gored him as if he were an enemy. When the Donkey saw
that the huge beast could be assailed with impunity, he let
drive at his forehead with his heels.
The expiring Lion said,
"I have reluctantly brooked the insults of the brave, but to
be compelled to endure such treatment from thee, a disgrace
to Nature, is indeed to die a double death."
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