https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hawk_and_the_Nightingale

A fable is a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral, and one of the earliest recorded fables in the Western literary canon, if not the first, is the fable of the hawk and the nightingale in Hesiod’s 8th-century B.C. poem Works and Days (lines 203-215). Below is the original version of Hesiod’s fable:

And now, for lords who understand, I’ll tell

A fable: once a hawk, high in the clouds,

Clutched in his claws a speckled nightingale.

She, pierced by those hooked claws, cried, ‘Pity me!’

But he made scornful answer: ‘Silly thing.

Why do you cry? Your master holds you fast,

You’ll go where I decide, although you have

A minstrel’s lovely voice, and if I choose, I’ll have you for a meal, or let you go.

Only a fool will match himself against a stronger party, for he’ll only lose,

And be disgraced as well as beaten.’ Thus

Spoke the swift-flying hawk, the long-winged bird.

Hesiod, Works and Days