417. Accipiter Columbam Insequens. Cum accipiter columbam praecipiti insequeretur volatu, villam quandam ingressus, a rustico captus est, quem blande, ut se dimitteret, obsecrabat, “Non enim te laesi,” dicens. Cui rusticus “Nec haec,” respondit, “te laeserat.” Fabula indicat merito puniri qui innocentes laedere conantur.
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M0417 (not in Perry). Source: Abstemius 3. This fable is not in Perry’s catalog; Perry omitted most of Abstemius’s fables. Compare the fable of the partridge begging for mercy, #528.
