the worse speed" (Samuel Croxall) or have applied to it the biblical observation, In the 19th century, the fable was given satirical interpretations, In the social commentary of Charles H. Bennett's The Fables of Aesop translated into Human Nature (1857) .

that "the race is not to the swift" (Ecclesiastes 9.11, Later interpreters too have asserted that the fable's, winneth."[5] moral is the proverbial "the more haste.

many people have which are ruined by idleness; on the other hand, sobriety, zeal and, srelation of the story. There, the infant figure of Eros is shown passing through"perseverance, a landscape and pointing to the tortoise as it overtakes the sleeping hare under the motto.