The Man Bitten by an Ant and Hermes

One day, when a ship had gone down with all its passengers, a man who witnessed the wreck declared that the judgements of the gods were unjust, since, to destroy one guilty man, they had let innocent people perish as well. As he was speaking, since there were many ants where he stood, it happened that one of them bit him; and he, for being bitten by a single ant, crushed them all. Then Hermes appeared to him and, striking him with his staff, said, "And now will you not allow that the gods judge men as you judge ants?"