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Aesop's Fables: Phaedrus

Book III - XI. Eunuchus ad Improbum (Perry 502)

Eunuchus litigabat cum quodam improbo,
qui super obscena dicta et petulans iurgium
damnum insectatus est amissi corporis.
"En" ait "hoc unum est cur laborem ualidius,
integritatis testes quia desunt mihi.
Sed quid Fortunae, stulte, delictum arguis?
Id demum est homini turpe quod meruit pati."

Latin text from Phaedrus at The Latin Library (Ad Fontes), English translations from The Fables of Phaedrus Translated into English Verse by Christopher Smart (London: 1913). Ben Perry, Babrius and Phaedrus (Loeb), contains the Latin texts of Phaedrus, with a facing English translation, along with a valuable appendix listing all the Aesop's fables attested in Greek and/or in Latin. Invaluable.