A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush
it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted
to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do
to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"
-- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.)
-- Book v, Fable 3, 1
