Aesop's Fables: Avianus
#26. de leone et capella. (Perry 157)
Viderat excelsa pascentem rupe capellam,
Comminus esuriens cum leo ferret iter.
Et prior: heus, inquit, praeruptis ardua saxis
Linque, nec hirsutis pascua quaere iugis;
Sed cythisi croceum per prata virentia florem
Et glaucas salices et thyma grata pete.
Illa gemens: desiste, precor, fallaciter, inquit,
Securam placidis instimulare dolis.
Vera licet moneas, maiora pericula tollas,
Tu tamen his dictis non facis esse fidem.
Nam quamvis rectis constet sententia verbis,
Suspectam hanc rabidus consiliator habet."
Latin text from Latin
Library (Ad Fontes), based on Léopold Hervieux, Les
fabulistes latins depuis le siècle d'Auguste jusqu'à la. fin
du Moyen-Age (1893-1899); supplemented by Latin text
at Bibliotheca
Augustana. Avianus is included in the Loeb volume for Minor Latin
Poets,
vol. 2, with the Latin text and a facing English translation.
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