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Appendix XXIX. Meretrix et iuuenis (Perry 555)

Multa esse nobis iocunda quae tamen sunt incommoda

Cum blandiretur iuueni meretrix perfida,
et ille laesus multis saepe iniuriis
tamen praeberet sese facilem mulieri,
sic insidiatrix: "Omnes muneribus licet
contendant, ego te plurimi facio tamen."
Iuuenis recordans quotiens deceptus foret:
"Lubenter," inquit, "mea lux, hanc uocem audio,
non quod fidelis, sed quod iucunda est mihi."

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.