The Greek version of the story (Καρκῖνος καὶ Ἀλώπηξ) is pithily told and concerns a crab that abandons the seashore and crawls into a neighbouring meadow where it is eaten by a fox. The comment there is that “this fable shows that people are bound to fail when they abandon their familiar pursuits and take up a business they know nothing about”.[2]