A wasp once settled on a snake’s head and tormented him with repeated stings. The snake, in agony and unable to defend himself against his enemy or drive him away, saw a wagon loaded with wood. In desperation, he thrust his head beneath its wheel, saying, “I shall die along with my enemy.” And so he died together with the wasp.
The fable shows that some would rather die than let their enemies live.
Σφήξ ποτε ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν ὄφεως καθίσας καὶ συνεχῶς τοῖς κέντροις πλήσσων, ἐχείμαζεν. Ὁ δὲ περιώδυνος γενόμενος καὶ τὸν ἐχθρὸν οὐκ ἔχων ἀμύνασθαι καὶ ἀποσοβῆσαι, ὡς ἐθεάσατο ἅμαξανμεστὴν ξύλων, ἀμηχανῶν τὴν κεφαλὴν τῷ τροχῷ ὑπέθηκε, φάσκων· ,,συντελευτῶ κἀγὼ τῷ ἐχθρῷ μου.“ Καὶ οὕτω τῷ σφηκὶ συναπέθανεν.
Ὀ λόγος δηλοῖ, ὅτι τινὲς τοῖς ἐχθροῖς αἱροῦνται συναποθνήσκειν.
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