Some thieves broke into a house and found nothing but a rooster, which they seized and carried off. As they were about to kill him, he begged them to let him go, saying that he was useful to people because he woke them in the night to go about their work. But they replied, “That is all the more reason for us to kill you: by waking them, you keep us from stealing.” The fable shows that what benefits honest people is most hateful to the wicked.
Κλέπται εἴς τινα εἰσελθόντες οἰκίαν, οὐδὲν εὗρον, ὅτι μὴ ἀλεκτρυόνα, καὶ τοῦτον λαβόντες ἀπῄεσαν. Ὁ δὲ μέλλων ὑπʼ αὐτῶν θύεσθαι, ἐδεῖτο, ὡς ἂν αὐτὸν ἀπολύσωσι, λέγων, χρήσιμος εἶναι τοῖς ἀνθρώποις, νυκτὸς αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τὰ ἔργα ἐγείρων. Οἱ δὲ ἔφασαν· „ἀλλὰ διὰ τοῦτό σε μᾶλλον θύομεν· ἐκείνους γὰρ ἐγείρων, κλέπτειν ἡμᾶς οὐκ ἐᾷς.“
Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ, ὅτι ταῦτα μάλιστα τοῖς πονηροῖς ἐναντιοῦται, ἃ τοῖς χρηστοῖς ἐστιν εὐεργετήματα.
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