The bees, grudging their honey to people, went to Zeus and begged him to give them the power to kill with a sting anyone who came near their cells. Zeus, indignant to see them so spiteful, condemned them to lose their sting whenever they struck someone with it, and to die afterwards.
*Spiteful those who consent to suffer themselves the harms they do.Moral
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