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Appendix XIII. Aesopus et uictor gymnicus (Perry 541)

Quomodo comprimatur aliquando iactantia

Victorem forte gymnici certaminis
iactantiorem Phryx cum uidisset sophus,
interrogauit an plus aduersarius
ualuisset neruis. Ille: "Ne istud dixeris;
multo fuere uires maiores meae."
"Quod" inquit "ergo, stulte, meruisti decus,
minus ualentem se uicisti fortior?
Ferendus esses, arte si te diceres
superasse eum qui te esset melior uiribus."

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.