A Lion and Boar fought over water on a hot day. During a break in the fight they saw Vultures waiting for the loser. Instantly, the battle was over.
Better to be friends than fight.
Townsend version
On a summer day, when the great heat induced a general thirst among the beasts, a Lion and a Boar came at the same moment to a small well to drink. They fiercely disputed which of them should drink first, and were soon engaged in the agonies of a mortal combat. When they stopped suddenly to catch their breath for a fiercer renewal of the fight, they saw some Vultures waiting in the distance to feast on the one that should fall first. They at once made up their quarrel, saying, “It is better for us to make friends, than to become the food of Crows or Vultures.”
Vultur Convivium Faciens
Vultur, volens laute prandere et ventrem suum delicatis cibis infarcire, invitavit aviculas ad convivium, natalem suum, ut dicebat, celebraturus. Haec fama exiit inter eas et hoc aucupio incautas fefellit. Veniunt igitur undique, existimantes invenire mensas omnis generis deliciarum refertas, non de suo paraturas. Sed ubi, adventatis ac coactis omnibus, fores occlusae sunt et vultur rapere et mactare et occidere coepit, “O insanas nos et vecordes,” inquiunt, “quae vulturi, inimico nostro, fidimus, et apud eum putantes reperire escas, ipsae eius escae factae sumus.”
Vultures, Leo, et Aper
Aestatis tempore, dum ardor animalia siti vexat, ad angustum fontem leo et aper potaturi concurrerant, et uter eorum prior biberet decertare coeperunt. Hinc ad mutuam caedem insurrexere; mox vero, ut paululum respirarent, pugna relicta, nonnullos vultures conspexere, qui longe exspectabant ut victus eorum quis caderet et devorarent. Id animadvertentes, inimicitias solvere, melius sibi esse aientes amicitiam servare quam vulturibus et corvis escam fieri.
Perry #338
