Note 1 — The Lion and the Jackal

Then the Jackal says, “If thou hadst stopped he wouldn’t eat thee. Art thou a person afraid to have the sovereignty bestowed on thee? What was it? Except that he merely looked at thee he did not attempt to eat thee, Cultivator. If he had done so wouldst thou be thus?1 No. Did he attempt the crime of eating thee?” [At last the Boar agreed to return to the Lion.]