A rich man who lived next door to a tanner could not bear the stench and kept pressing him to move away. But the tanner put him off, saying he would move before long. This happened so often that the rich man grew accustomed to the smell and no longer troubled him.
The story shows that familiarity softens even the unpleasant things in life.
Πλούσιος βυρσοδέψῃ παρακείμενος, μὴ δυνάμενος τὴν δυσωδίαν φέρειν, ἐπέκειτο αὐτῷ, ἵνα μεταβῇ. Ὁ δὲ ἀνεβάλλετο, λέγων μετʼ ὀλίγον χρόνον μεταβήσεσθαι. Τούτου δὲ συνεχῶς γενομένου, συνέβη τὸν πλούσιον ἐν συνηθείᾳ τῆς ὀσμῆς τούτου γενόμενον, μηκέτι αὐτῷ διενοχλεῖν.
Ὁ λόγος δηλοῖ, ὅτι ἡ συνήθεια καὶ τὰ δυσχερῆ τῶν πραγμάτων καταπραΰνει.
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