pleasures, he shall learn from me those too seldom trodden paths that
lead to honour along the tracks of virtue."

When it came to Cupid, the god of love, to speak he simply said, "I can
show him everything."


And Cupid was right; for what cannot be achieved with wit and the desire
to please?

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 14: The Goddess of Spring and of Flowers, was also regarded by
the Greeks as the Goddess of Youth and its pleasures.]

[Footnote 15: The Hydra was a monster with one hundred heads. If one was
cut off two grew in its place unless the wound was stopped by fire.]




XXXV

THE LION, THE MONKEY, AND THE TWO ASSES

(BOOK XI.--No. 5)


King Lion, thinking that he would govern better if he took a few lessons
in moral philosophy, had a monkey brought to him one fine day who was a