A SERPENT and an Eagle were struggling with each other in deadly conflict. The Serpent had the advantage, and was about to strangle the bird. A countryman saw them, and running up, loosed the coil of the Serpent and let the Eagle go free. The Serpent, irritated at the escape of his prey, injected his poison into the drinking horn of the countryman. The rustic, ignorant of his danger, was about to drink, when the Eagle struck his hand with his wing, and, seizing the drinking horn in his talons, carried it aloft.
ヘビとワシが、たがいに死にものぐるいの戦いでとっ組み合っていた。ヘビのほうが優勢で、いまにもワシをしめ殺そうとしていた。いなかの男がそれを見て、かけよってヘビのとぐろをほどき、ワシを自由にしてやった。獲物に逃げられて腹を立てたヘビは、男の角の杯に毒を注ぎこんだ。男は自分の身の危険も知らずに、それを飲もうとした。するとワシが翼で男の手を打ち、つめで角の杯をつかんで空高く運び去った。