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"The Lion and The Gnat." Moral: Little miseries are the greatest torments! Here a lion is being irritated beyond endurance by the persistence of a gnat. Illustration from "The Fables of Aesop and others: Translated into Human Nature" designed and drawn on the wood by Charles H. Bennett, engraved by Swain, published by W. Kent & Co., London, 1857. Bennett was a prolific Victorian illustrator.