Folk Tale

The Frogs and the Fighting Bulls

Translated From

Ranae Metuentes Proelia Taurorum

AuthorPhaedrus
Book TitleFabulae Aesopiae
Publication Date41
LanguageLatin

Other Translations / Adaptations

Text titleLanguageAuthorPublication Date
Y llyffant a’r teirwWelshGan Glan Alun1887
Les deux Taureaux et la Grenouille. French__
AuthorThomas James
LanguageEnglish
OriginItaly

A FROG, sitting at the edge of a swamp, was watching a battle between two Bulls in an adjoining field. "Alas! what deadly danger threatens us," he said. Another Frog, overhearing him, asked what he meant, when the Bulls were merely fighting to decide which should lead the herd, and the cattle passed their lives quite apart from the home of the Frogs. "It is true," rejoined the first Frog, "that they are a different race and live apart from us. But whichever Bull is beaten and driven from his leadership in the woods will come to find some secret hiding place; and I fear that many of us will be trampled to pieces under his hard hoofs. That is why I say that their battle means death and destruction to us." When the mighty quarrel, the humble pay the cost.


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