Boothby: Avianus. The Camel.

The restless discontented mind
Change for the worse will often find.
A Camel begg'd of Jove that he
One of the horned tribe might be;
Who, to reward his foolish prayers,
Decreed that he should lose his ears.

Source: Boothby - Avianus 25.

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