In one of his fables, a bee of Mt. Hymettus asks Jupiter for its sting to be fatal
There is an Aesop fable, "Jupiter and the Bee," where the 
ancient Greek ... A bee from Mount Hymettus, the queen of the hive, ascended to [DOC] [TLE] Aesop's Fables - Mary Duncan School [PAR] Aesop, or Babrius (or whatever his name was), understood that, for a fable, ... two 
legs instead of four and pluck it of feathers and you cannot help asking for a ... 
cannot befoul its own fountain, and that any one who says it does is a tyrant ...