An alliance with the powerful is never to be relied upon: the present fable testifies the truth of my maxim. A cow, a she-goat, and a sheep patient under injuries, were partners in the forests with a lion. When they had captured a stag of vast bulk, thus spoke the lion, after it had been divided into shares: "Because my name is lion, I take the first; the second you will yield to me because I am courageous; then, because I am the strongest, the third will 369 fall to my lot; if anyone touches the fourth, woe betide him." 
Thus did unscrupulousness seize upon the whole prey for itself. 