Mesorat%20hashas for Avodah Zarah 51:2

אזלו עבדו גניבתא עשרין ותרתין שנין ולא אצלחו כיון דחזו אתו כולהו תבעו שמתייהו והוה בהו חד גירדנא דלא אתא לשרויה שמתיה אכלי' אריא היינו דאמרי אינשי גירדנא דלא טייזן שתא בציר משני

For twenty-two years they went on stealing but did not meet with any success. When they saw this, they all came to ask for the ban to be revoked. Now there was among them one weaver who did not come to have his ban annulled, and he was devoured by a lion. This is what is meant by what people say: A a weaver who is not shy, a year is deducted from his allotted years

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