A Man who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone who might heal him. A friend, meeting him and learning what he wanted, said, “If you would be cured, take a piece of bread, and dip it in the blood from your wound, and go and give it to the Dog that bit you.” The Man who had been bitten laughed at this advice and said, “Why? If I should do so, it would be as if I should beg every Dog in the town to bite me.”
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around 620–564 BCE, credited with hundreds of enduring fables that use animals and everyday characters to illuminate human nature. "The Man Bitten by a Dog" is among his shorter and more purely comic fables, relying on a single sharp exchange rather than animal allegory to deliver its moral punch.
