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Appendix XXII. Vrsus esuriens (Perry 550)

Famam acuere animantibus ingenium

Si quando in siluis urso desunt copiae,
scopulosum ad litus currit et prendens petram
pilosa crura sensim demittit uado;
quorum inter uillos haeserunt cancri simul,
in terram adsiliens excutit praedam maris,
escaque fruitur passim collecta uafer.
Ergo etiam stultis acuit ingenium fames.

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.