Phaedrus (fabulist)

Gaius Julius Phaedrus (c. 15 BC – c. 50 AD) was a Roman fabulist, by birth a Macedonian and lived in the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius and Claudius. Quotes Fortes indigne tuliMihi insultare: te, nature dedecus,Quod ferre certe cogor, bis videor mori. Ill have I brook’d that nobler foesShould triumph o’er my dying woes:But, scorn of nature, forced to lieAnd take thy taunts, is twice to die. Phaedrus, 1, 21, 10. The Dying Lion to the Ass that kicked him. Reported in: Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 819. Fables Fabulae Aesopiae Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you. Book I, fable 2, line 31. He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own. Book I, fable 4, line 1. That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines. Book I, fable 9, line 1. Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief. Book I, fable 10, line 1. By this story [The Fox and the Raven] it is shown how much ingenuity avails, and how wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. Book I, fable 13, line 13. No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief. Book I, fable 18, line 1. It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles. Book I, fable 25, line 3. Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example. Book I, fable 26, line 12. Come of it what may, as Sinon said. Book III. The Prologue, line 27. Non semper ea sunt quae videntur. Things are not always what they seem. Book IV, fable 2, line 5. Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one, filled with our own vices, line he has placed at our backs; the other, lie heavy with those of others, he has hung before. Book IV, fable 10, line 1. A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse. Book IV, fable 23, line 1. A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?" Book V, fable 3, line 1. Once lost, Jupiter himself cannot bring back opportunity. Book V, fable 7, line 4. "I knew that before you were born." Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself. Book V, fable 9, line 4. Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet. A learned man always has riches within himself. Book VI, fable 22, line 1 External links 830/000097539 Category:BCE births Category:1st century deaths Category:Latin authors Category:Slaves