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

238. THE EAGLE AND THE WREN
Perry 434 (Plutarch, Political Precepts 12.806e)

Aesop's wren was carried along on the shoulders of the eagle; then all of a sudden he flew off and beat the eagle to the finish line.

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.