Hercules & Minerva | Aesop's Fables

Hercules was once traveling along a narrow road when he saw what appeared to be an apple lying on the ground in front of him.

As he walked by, he stamped the apple with his heel. To his astonishment, instead of being crushed it doubled in size and upon attacking it again and beating it with his club, it swelled up to an enormous size and blocked up the whole road. At this point, he dropped his club and stood looking at it in amazement.

Just then, Minerva appeared and said to him, "Leave it alone, my friend. "That which you see before you is the Apple of Discord. If you do not meddle with it, it remains small as it was at first, but if you resort to violence, it swells up into the monstrosity you see before you."

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