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Appendix IX. Aesopus et scriptor (Perry 537)

De malo scriptore se laudante

Aesopo quidam scripta recitarat mala,
in quis inepte multum se iactauerat.
Scire ergo cupiens quidnam sentiret senex,
"Numquid tibi" inquit "uisus sum superbior?"
Haud uana nobis ingeni fiducia est."
Confectus ille pessimo uolumine,
"Ego" inquit "quod te laudas uehementer probo;
namque hoc ab alio numquam contiget tibi."

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.