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Appendix XXIV. Pastor et capella (Perry 280)

Nihil ita occultum esse quod non reuelatur

Pastor capellae cornu baculo fregerat:
rogare coepit ne se domino proderet.
"Quamuis indigne laesa reticebo tamen;
sed res clamabit ipsa quid deliqueris."

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.