The lion and the mouse

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The lion and the mouse

The lion and the mouse is an animal fable by the ancient Greek fable poet Aesop and has great parallels to the ancient Egyptian - demotic fable The lion and the mouse .

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Sculpture by Tom Otterness in Scheveningen

Once upon a time there was a mouse that danced over a sleeping lion and woke it up. He took it in his paws, but the mouse pleaded:

“Forgive me for my carelessness and give me my life, I want to be eternally grateful to you. I didn't want to disturb you. "

At this request the lion generously gave her freedom and asked how the mouse could show him its thanks. A short time later the mouse found the lion trapped in a net. She rushed over and gnawed a few knots of the net so that the lion could break free.

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For the saying “the mouse doesn't bite off a thread”, the colloquial confirmation of a statement that cannot be changed, there is often a reference to the fable of the lion and the mouse .

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