Aesop's Fables, Part 80 summary
Part 80 of 284 · 1 min to read the part
In The Man and the Lion, a Man and a Lion argue about their strength and bravery, and the Man points to a statue as proof of human superiority. The Lion challenges this evidence by saying that lions would make different statues, shifting the dispute toward how each side presents its own story.
What happens
- A Man and a Lion travel together and each claims greater strength and courage.
- At a crossroads, they find a statue showing a Man strangling a Lion.
- The Man treats the statue as proof that humans are stronger.
- The Lion replies that statues made by lions would usually show the Man defeated.
- The closing moral stresses that a question has more than one side.
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What to notice
The moral sums up the Lion’s objection: one side’s representation does not settle a dispute.
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Why does the Lion reject the statue as proof?
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