Author details/dating: Aesop Born: c. 620 BCE, Delphi, Greece, died 564 BC, Nationality: Greek

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Citation Reference: The Horse and His Rider

Citation Content: A cavalryman took the utmost pains with his charger. As long as the war lasted, he looked upon him as his fellow helper in all emergencies and fed him carefully with hay and corn. But when the war was over, he only allowed him chaff to eat and made him carry heavy loads of wood, subjecting him to much slavish drudgery and ill-treatment. War was again proclaimed, however, and when the trumpet summoned him to his standard, the soldier put the military trappings on his charger and mounted, being heavily clad in coat of mail. The horse fell down straightway under the weight, no longer equal to the burden, and said to the master, “You must now go to the war on foot, for you have transformed me from a horse into an ass; and how can you expect that I can again turn in a moment from an ass to a Horse?

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