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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)

169. THE WOLF AND THE LION
Perry 347 (Syntipas 52)

A wolf had seized a young pig and was carrying it away when he ran into a lion. The lion immediately took the pig away from him. After having to surrender the pig, the wolf said to himself, 'I wondered myself how what I acquired by theft could possibly have stayed with me.'
The fable shows that if someone acquires other people's property by fraud or force, he cannot expect to keep it.


Source: Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura Gibbs. Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002.
NOTE: New cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.