A fox, seeing a lion shut in a cage, stood close by and hurled bitter insults at him. The lion said to her, “It is not you who insult me, but the misfortune that has befallen me.” This fable shows that many who are held in honor, when they fall on hard times, are treated with contempt by the lowly.
Ἀλώπηξ θεασαμένη ἐγκάθειρκτον λέοντα, καὶ τούτου στᾶσα ἐγγὺς, δεινῶς αὐτὸν ὕβριζεν. Ὁ δὲ λέων ἔφη πρὸς αὐτήν· ,,οὐ σύ με καθυβρίζεις, ἀλλʼ ἡ προσπεσοῦσά μοι ἀτυχία.“
Ὁ μῦθος οὗτος δηλοῖ, ὡς πολλοὶ τῶν ἐνδόξων, δυσπραγίαις περιπίπτοντες, ὑπ εὐτελῶν ἐξουθενοῦνται.
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