Aesop's Fable 155 - "Mighty Mouse" Greek Translation from "Alpha to Omega" by Anne Groton

"A lion seizes a mouse and wants to eat him. 

'Do not eat me,' 

the small mouse says, 

'because when you will be in danger, it will be possible for me to help you.' 

The lion laughs, 

'It is not possible, O mouse, to help me. But no longer do I want to eat you. Good bye.' 

But when the lion is seized by hunters, the same mouse gnaws the very net and loosens the lion. 

'No longer laugh at me at least, 'the mouse says, 'for honor is even to mice.' 

This word makes clear these things; honor even the small ones, for in danger these will carry you out of death."