Ingratitude toward a benefactor

greek

• Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE ASS AND THE WOLF / THE MONKEY AND THE CAMEL / THE SICK MAN AND THE DOCTOR / THE TRAVELLERS AND THE PLANE-TREE; lines 3473-3487 confidence: high

  “What a useless tree the Plane is! It bears no fruit and is of no service to man at all.”

  The traveller benefits from the tree’s shade but calls the tree useless; the moral explicitly names ingratitude toward service.

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• Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE ASS AND THE WOLF / THE MONKEY AND THE CAMEL / THE SICK MAN AND THE DOCTOR / THE TRAVELLERS AND THE PLANE-TREE; lines 3473-3487 confidence: high

  They come to a plane-tree and shelter joyfully from the sun in the deep shade of its spreading branches.

  The traveller receives shelter from the plane-tree but calls it useless, and the tree explicitly calls him ungrateful; the moral generalizes the point.

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buddhist

• The Jataka; or, Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Vol. I KALANDUKA-JATAKA. / BILARA-JATAKA. / AGGIKA-JATAKA. / ASAMPADANA-JATAKA.; lines 16815-16915 confidence: high

  The Brethren discuss Devadatta’s ingratitude; the Master says, “this is not the first time that Devadatta has been ungrateful,” and begins a story of the past.

  The frame identifies Devadatta as ungrateful, and the past tale shows Piliya accepting half the Millionaire’s fortune but later refusing him lodging and giving only pollard.

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shan

• Shans at Home, With Two Chapters on Shan History and Literature THE STORY OF LITTLE THUMB / THE WOLF AND THE MAN / THE KIND CROW / THE MONKEY AND THE MAN; lines 11836-11892 confidence: high

  At dawn a monkey looking for fruit hears and sees the man in the hole, asks why he is there, lowers its tail, and pulls him out.

  After the monkey rescues him and asks only to rest, the man forgets the monkey's kindness and strikes it with a stone.

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