Aesop's Fables: Phaedrus
Appendix XXVIII. Lepus et bubulcus (Perry
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Multos uerbis blandos esse, pectore infideles
Cum uenatorem celeri pede fugeret lepus
et a bubulco uisus ueprem inreperet:
"Per te oro superos perque spes omnes tuas,
ne me indices, bubulce; nihil umquam mali
huic agro feci." Et rusticus: "Ne timueris;
late securus." Iamque uenator sequens:
"Quaeso, bubulce, numquid huc uenit lepus?"
"Venit, sed abiit hac ad laeuam," et dexteram
demonstrat nutu partem. Venator citus
non intellexit seque e conspectu abstulit.
Tunc sic bubulcus: "Ecquid est gratum tibi,
quod te celaui?" "Linguae prorsus non nego
habere atque agere maximas me gratias;
uerum oculis ut priueris opto perfidis."
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.
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