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

510. ZEUS AND THE CAMEL
Perry 117 (Syntipas 59)

When the camel saw another animal's horns, she begged Zeus to give her horns too. Zeus was angry at the camel's greediness, so he cropped her ears instead.
This fable shows that people who grasp for more than they need are deprived of what they have.


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.