«Ad rivum eundem lupus et agnus venerant, siti compulsi.
Superior stabat lupus, longeque inferior agnus.
Tunc fauce improba latro incitatus iurgii causam intulit:
"Cur - inquit - turbulentam fecisti mihi aquam bibenti?"
Laniger contra timens:
"Qui possum - quaeso - facere quod quereris, lupe? A te decurrit ad meos haustus liquor."
Repulsus ille veritatis viribus:
"Ante hos sex menses male - ait - dixisti mihi".
Respondit agnus:
"Equidem natus non eram!"
"Pater, hercle, tuus - ille inquit - male dixit mihi!"
Atque ita correptum lacerat iniusta nece.
Haec propter illos scripta est homines fabula qui fictis causis innocentes opprimunt.»
Meaning
The fable tells of a wolf and a lamb who drink from the same stream. The wolf accuses the lamb of dirtying the water he is drinking, even though he was higher up than the lamb, and, when this stratagem fails, of having spoken badly of him; learning that the lamb had not yet been born at the time of the events, the wolf concludes that it must have been the ram, its father, and, throwing himself on the lamb, kills and eats it.
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Dear Doctor
[The lamb is able to prove the excuse false in each story, but the wolf kills and eats the lamb regardless. The lesson is that someone holding more power than a victim and acting unjustly may seek to justify behavior, but will carry out the behavior anyway.]
Dear Sundus F Hantoosh, you are absolutely right because it has always been like this until now. In fact, all the history books report the fact that the wolf, whether or not making false accusations, eats the lamb. The wolves of today, by divine will, proclaim themselves Kings and by virtue of this they claim to rewrite history. The history rewritten by them unequivocally states that the lamb, foolishly, tried to tear the wolf to pieces. Therefore, the wolf is forced to kill and eat it.
all the history books report the fact that the wolf, whether or not making false accusations, eats the lamb. but this is all uncertain topics
Dear Ali Falah Zbala, this is just an imaginary fable (a parable, a story) written by Phaedrus more than 2000 years ago. The clash between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office of the White House is horribly real and will go down in history. This clash is the exact representation of the fable "The Wolf and the Lamb" imagined by Phaedrus about 2000 years ago.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_(fabulist)
https://stream24.ilsole24ore.com/video/mondo/scontro-trump-zelensky-studio-ovale/AGpltOED?refresh_ce=1
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