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The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't help myself. It's my character." [1]
This are a list of those fables attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller, Aesop, or stories about him, which have been in many Wikipedia articles. Many hundreds of others have been collected his creation of fables over the centuries, as described on the Aesopica website. [1]
The frog agrees, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog. When asked the reason for his illogical action, the scorpion explains that this is simply his nature. The earliest verifiable appearance of this variant was in the 1954 script of Orson Welles ' film Mr. Arkadin . [ 25 ]
In 2020, The Digital Fix said that "Scorpion" was the best episode in season 3 of the show. [19] In 2020, Screen Rant said "Scorpion, Part II" was the third best, and "Scorpion, Part I" the second best episodes of Star Trek: Voyager, based on IMDB ratings of 8.9 out of 10, and 9 out of 10, respectively. [20]
The word 'scorpion' does not appear in the book, but instead there are two fables with a snake ("un serpent") and some frogs ("des grenouilles") (see p. 99). Apparently, in one fable the serpent is replaced by a hydra ("une hydre") which is either the tiny aquatic organism or the Hydra of Greek mythology.
The family welcomes the frozen snake, a woodcut by Ernest Griset. The Farmer and the Viper is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 176 in the Perry Index. [1] It has the moral that kindness to evil will be met by betrayal and is the source of the idiom "to nourish a viper in one's bosom".
But when the crow seizes her, the snake kills it with her sting. The story's moral is that good fortune may not be all that it seems. [2] An alternative fable concerning a raven and a scorpion is included as a poem by Archias of Mytilene in the Greek Anthology. [3] The story is much the same but the moral drawn is that the biter shall be bit.
The moral drawn in Mediaeval Latin retellings of the fable such as those of Adémar de Chabannes and Romulus Anglicus [7] was that one should learn from the misfortunes of others, but it was also given a political slant by the additional comment that "it is easier to enter the house of a great lord than to get out of it", as William Caxton expressed it in his English version. [8]