His master, Xanthippus, said to him one summer's evening, or it may have been a winter's evening for that matter because the Greeks used to have baths whatever the season: 'Aesop, go to the baths. If there are not too many people there we'll take a bath.'
Aesop set off. On the way he met the town guard of Athens.
'Where are you going?'
'Where am I going?' replied Aesop. 'I don't know.'
'You don't know? Then you're coming with us to prison.'
'There you are,' said Aesop, 'Didn't I tell you I didn't know where I was going? I wanted to go to the baths, and here I am going to prison.'
