624. Anguilla et Serpens. Anguilla interrogabat serpentem quare, cum similes essent atque cognati, homines tamen se, potius quam illum, insequerentur. Cui serpens “Quia rarus,” inquit, “me laedit impune.”
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M0624 (not in Perry). Source: Abstemius 17. This fable is not in Perry’s catalog; Perry omitted most of Abstemius’s fables. Compare Apollo’s advice to the snake, #614.
