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Aesop's Fables: Phaedrus

Book IV - XV. Prometheus (Perry 515)

[tum materia eadem usus formauit recens]

a fictione ueretri linguam mulieris.
Adfinitatem traxit inde obscaenitas.


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.