Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE.
The fables originally belonged to the oral tradition and were not collected for some three centuries after Aesop's death.
Aesop Fables, were known for their teachings, because they almost alway had a moral statement at the end of the story. If he wrote stories without a moral, what was he trying to communicate to the children.
Aesop - The Seller of Images is one of the fables that he did not write a moral for.
Read it and let me know what you think the MORAL should be.
Aesop Fables - The Seller of Images - A CERTAIN MAN made a wooden image of Mercury and offered it for
sale. When no one appeared willing to buy it, in order to
attract purchasers, he cried out that he had the statue to sell
of a benefactor who bestowed wealth and helped to heap up riches.
One of the bystanders said to him, "My good fellow, why do you
sell him, being such a one as you describe, when you may yourself
enjoy the good things he has to give?' "Why," he replied, "I am
in need of immediate help, and he is wont to give his good gifts
very slowly."
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Claudio M Hagi
The liar, in order to justify one lie, tells another lie.