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Welcome everyone, today we're going to do ASAP's Fables.

Ibrahim Ali requested this, that I do another lesson using ASAP's Fables,

and we can talk about ASAP's Fables.

It's from this book, this is an English translation, obviously, the original Fables, a Fables

of Story, specifically it's a story with a message, right, designed to teach you something,

and ASAP was Greek, and so the originals are in Greek, okay, we're in Greek, written in

Greek, are written in Greek, and there are thousands of years old, these stories, so these

are very, very old, but these have been translated into English, they've been around a very long

time, they're very common, most people know a lot of these are very well known, in fact,

we get a lot of idioms from ASAP's stories, for example, sour grapes, we did that story

one time, that's an idiom in English, today we're going to do one called the Victor vanquished,

the Victor vanquished, and it's a story about pride, the dangers of pride is what this story teaches us.

So let's go ahead and start it, the Victor vanquished, okay, a Victor means winner,

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