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Appendix XXVII. Socrates et seruus nequam (Perry 554)

Nullum maledictum esse grauius conscientia

Cum seruus nequam Socrati male diceret,
uxorem domini qui corrupisset sui,
idque ille sciret notum circumstantibus,
"Places tibi" inquit "quia cui non debes places;
sed non impune, quia cui debes non places."

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.