attr. Æsop, Three Hundred Aesop's Fables — The Two Men who were Enemies (1887)
“ A violent storm having arisen, and the vessel being in great danger of sinking, the one in the stern inquired of the pilot which of the two ends of the ship would go down first. On his replying that he supposed it would be the prow, then said the Man, "Death would not be grievous to me, if I could only see my Enemy die before me." ”
