"Where to Draw the Lion" Aesop Fable 279 - A Short Greek Translation From Anne Groton's "From Alpha to Omega"

'The old man has a beloved child, but he is afraid; dangers are in the countryside. "For it is possible, O child, for you to be destroyed by a lion when out of the house you move. Therefore in the house I command you to remain throughout life. But a guard I myself will be." 

On the one hand in the beginning the child is grateful in the house, but on the other hand when the hold man draws a lion on the wall, the child has pain; "For the sake of you, o bad lion, I am no longer able to leave the house. I will hurt you through this." The child throws the hand against the lion. But a thorn out of the wall harms the hand, and the child through fever abandons life. But he was destroyed by the lion through this turn. 

It is not possible, o man, to flee fate.'

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