So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten."

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten."

Source

Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
Frag. 135 (trans. by Plumptre).
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attributed · historical anthology
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Historical coordinate

c. 491 BC · classical
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