A fly falls into a soup pot and reflects before drowning, "I have eaten, I have drunk, I have taken a bath; if I die, what do I care?"[1] Babrius records a variant in which it is a mouse that accepts its end in this philosophical way.[2] Commenting on the fable, Laura Gibbs[3] compares the dying mouse’s thoughts with a similar sentiment at the end of Horace's Epistle to Florus: "You have played enough, eaten and drunk enough, it is time for you to leave" (Lusisti satis, edisti satis, atque bibistis: tempus abire tibi est).[4]