"The Grand Augur, in his ceremonial robes, approached the
shambles and thus addressed the Pigs:--
"'Why,' said he, 'should you object to die? I shall fattan you
for three months. I shall discipline myself for ten days and
fast for three. I shall strew fine grass, and place you bodily
upon a carved sacrificial dish. Does not this satisfy you?
"'Yet perhaps after all,' he continued, speaking from the pigs'
point of view, 'it is better to live on bran and escape the
shambles...
"'No,' said he; speaking from his own point of view again. 'To
enjoy honor when alive one would readily die on a war-shield or
in the haeadsman's basket.'
"So he rejected the pigs' point of view and clung to his own. In
what sense, then, was he different from the pigs?"