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Appendix XVIII. Gallus et feles lecticarii (Perry 546)

Nimiam securitatem saepe in periculum homines ducere

Feles habebat gallus lecticarios.
Hunc gloriose uulpes ut uidit uehi,
sic est locuta: "Moneo praecaueas dolum;
istorum uultus namque si consideres,
praedam portare iudices, non sarcinam."
Postquam esurire coepit felum societas,
discerpsit dominum et fecit partes funeris.


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.