The Frog and the Ox
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The Frog and the Ox is a fable attributed to Aesop. The story concerns an arrogant frog who tried to inflate himself to the size of an ox, but burst before he could do so. The moral is stated at the end of the fable as:
- Not all creatures can become as great as they think.
In different editons the arrogant frog appears variedly either as a king of the frogs or a mother frog. An arrogant king is a common theme in fables and fairy tales, though it is not known if the mother frog was meant to imply the vanity of women.
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