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 long-remembered injury. —
Shortly afterwards the Bull with his horns gored him as if he were an enemy. —
When the Ass 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.”