The Flea and the Ox

Aesop * Track #115 On Aesop’s Fables

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The Flea and the Ox by Aesop

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One of the many of Aesop’s fables meant to serve moral purpose, as this one does but displays thought provoking irony.

The Flea and the Ox Annotated

A FLEA thus questioned an Ox: "What ails you, that being so huge
and strong, you submit to the wrongs you receive from men and
slave for them day by day, while I, being so small a creature,
mercilessly feed on their flesh and drink their blood without
stint?' The Ox replied: "I do not wish to be ungrateful, for I am
loved and well cared for by men, and they often pat my head and
shoulders." "Woe's me!" said the flea; "this very patting which
you like, whenever it happens to me, brings with it my inevitable
destruction."

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