This is a fable, not as profound as Aesop’s Fables, but with a moral, nonetheless. I thank Google for the wealth of information at my fingertips. A man went to see a doctor, who asked why ...

Displeased, the gods punished Delphi with blight and disease. That biography, of course, is really another fable. Its moral, in the formulaic Aesopian style, might be something like ...