Phaemon’s Dog
Phaemon the philosopher had a little dog whom he had trained to go to the butcher every bring back a lump of meat in a basket. This virtuous creature, who would never dare to touch a scrap until Phaemon gave it permission, was one day set upon by a pack of mongrels who snatched the basket from its mouth and began to tear the meat to pieces and bolt it greedily down. Phaemon, watching from an upper window, saw the dog deliberate for a moment just what to do. It was clearly no use trying to rescue the meat from the other dogs: they wouild kill it for its pains. So it rushed in among them and itself ate as much of the meat as it could get hold of. In fact it ate more than any of the other dogs, because it was both braver and cleverer.
– from Claudius the God, by Robert Graves, 1935
Such is the cruel fate of the virtuous when faced with suffuse and irradicable corruption.
May 24th, 2010 at 2:32
I love those large German Shepherd dogs and also those tiny Chihuahua”‘;
July 18th, 2010 at 22:14
i really love dogs as pets because they are so adorable and very loyal pets too.-”
August 31st, 2010 at 3:38
i love dogs and puppies because they are very very cute`.~
October 7th, 2010 at 13:52
i love dogs specially very small puppies coz they are so so overly cute, i love to hug them:;’
December 12th, 2010 at 20:55
puppies and dogs are very cute, i always love to play with them during my spare time .~-
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