Illustrated: Asinus, Gallus, et Leo

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M0234 - M0235 - M0236

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235. Asinus, Gallus, et Leo. Gallus aliquando cum asino pascebatur. Leone autem aggresso asinum, gallus exclamavit, et leo (qui galli vocem timet) fugere incipit. Asinus, ratus propter se fugere, aggressus est leonem; ut vero procul a gallicinio persecutus est, conversus leo asinum devoravit, qui moriens clamabat, “Iusta passus sum; ex pugnacibus enim non natus parentibus, quamobrem in aciem irrui?”

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Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Medici Aesop images. You can read the whole story from right to left: first the rooster, then the donkey chasing the lion, then the donkey being eaten by that same lion!

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M0235 = Perry082. Source: Barlow’s Aesop 46. This is Perry 82. For another fable about the lion’s fear of the rooster, see #797. For another unwise attack, see the fable of the ram who thought he could attack a bull, #314. Read a Fabula Facilis version of this fable.