Aho Houegbadja - The fish, once escaped from the trap, doesn't go b

The fish, once escaped from the trap, doesn't go back

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Aho Houegbadja, 1645-1685, Dahomey King, Quoted in The Kings of Dahomey, http://www.concentric.net/~Jeffnaus/kings.htm

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