The Fly and the Bull. A tiny fly was sitting on the horn of a bull. "If my weight is too much for you," said the fly, "I will leave right away." The bull replied, "Where are you? I don't feel anything at all."
Musca et Taurus. In cornu Tauri parva sedebat Musca. "Si te nimis gravo" inquit "statim avolabo." Taurus respondet, "Ubi es? Nihil sentio."
Notes. This is Gildersleeve 1, which is Perry 137 in Perry's classification scheme. You can find all kinds of combinations of animals used for this story - a gnat and a camel, for example, or a fly and a bull, as here. The only requirement is that the insect should be very very tiny and the beast should be very very large! The bigger the discrepancy between the two of them, the better. :-)
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