Archilochus 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179

174: this is a story about people, how a fox and eagle mixed together

175: carrying to its children... the two flightless one hastened upon a foul feast... on a high hill

176: you see where there is that high hill, rough and hostile. He sits in it, scorning your fight.

177: Zeus, father Zeus, yours is the sky's strength, you see just and unjust acts among people, and you also care about animals' insolence and justice

178: lest you chance upon one with a black butt

179: he set forth a harmful dinner to his children

• More frustrating fragments. The assemblage of these fragments into a semi-coherent narrative seems plausible enough, though it relies a lot on the Aesop fable: i.e. an eagle stole a fox's cubs and fed them to its own children; later, after accidentally burning his own nest, the fox eats the eagle's chicks.
• The whole idea of a one-to-one allegory with animals feels pretty far from epic, but it is a bit like Hesiod's fable of the hawk and nightingale (also introduced with αἶνος, as Allen points out). Pretty far from the Telephus elegy, which really did feel just like a mythological exemplum in Homer (like the Meleager story in Il. 9).
• The story, as we have it,  seems concerned with a comparison between people and animals: 174 and 177 both juxtapose ἄνθρωποι with animals, and in 177 the speaker insists on an equivalence of justice & injustice among people and animals (presumably against criticism that Zeus doesn't care about animal's injustice). One can imagine texts where the animals pray to Zeus and the other gods without calling attention to their different status (this is basically the Batrachomyomachia as I recall it), but this text works differently
• Possibly one goal is to show that even in places where you think Zeus doesn't care, even there Zeus is concerned with justice; so too Lycambes will be punished