A hungry jackdaw perched in a fig tree. Finding the figs still unripe, he waited for them to ripen. A fox, seeing him linger there and learning the reason from him, said, “My good fellow, you are mistaken to put your trust in hope: it knows how to beguile, but not how to feed.” [This fable is well suited to a quarrelsome man.]
Κολοιὸς λιμώττων ἐπί τινος συκῆς ἐκάθισεν· εὑρὼν δὲ τοὺς ὀλύνθους μηδέπω πεπείρους, προσέμενεν ἕως σῦκα γένωνται. Ἀλώπηξ δὲ θεασαμένη αὐτὸν ἐγχρονίζοντα καὶ τὴν αἰτίαν παρʼ αὐτοῦ μαθοῦσα, ἔφη· „ἀλλὰ πεπλάνησαι, ὦ οὗτος, ἐλπίδι προσέχων, ἥτις βουκολεῖν μὲν οἶδε, τρέφειν δὲ οὐδαμῶς.“
[Πρὸς ἄνδρα φιλόνεικον ὁ λόγος εὔκαιρος.]
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