JUPITER ISSUED a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be deemed the handsomest. The Monkey came with the rest and presented, with all a mother's tenderness, a flat-nosed, hairless, ill-featured young Monkey as a candidate for the promised reward. A general laugh saluted her on the presentation of her son. She resolutely said, "I know not whether Jupiter will allot the prize to my son, but this I do know, that he is at least in the eyes of me his mother, the dearest, handsomest, and most beautiful of all."
朱庇特打算给最漂亮的小野兽发奖,百兽纷纷带着孩子来到朱庇特身边。母猴想让自己的孩子参选,别的野兽哈哈大笑,母猴却说:“在一个母亲眼里,他的孩子永远都是最可爱、最漂亮、最美丽的宝贝。”