A sick lion began to tire and lay on the ground. A boar ran toward him and avenged a long-remembered injury by stabbing the lion with his tusks. Soon after, a bull stabbed the lion with his horns. When a donkey saw the beast, he lifted his heels and began to mar the lion. The lion said, “I have tolerated insults from the brave, but to endure such treatment from you cowards is worse than the doom of death itself.”