Aesop's Fables: Phaedrus
Appendix VIII. Religio (Perry 536)
De oraculo Apollinis
Vtilius nobis quid sit dic, Phoebe, obsecro,
qui Delphos et formosum Parnasum incolis.
Subito sacratae uatis horrescunt comae,
tripodes mouentur, mugit adytis Religio,
tremuntque lauri et ipse pallescit dies.
Voces resoluit icta Pytho numine:
"Audite, gentes, Delii monitus dei:
pietatem colite, uota superis reddite;
patriam, parentes, natos, castas coniuges
defendite armis, hostem ferro pellite;
amicos subleuate, miseris parcite;
bonis fauete, subdolis ite obuiam;
delicta uindicate, corripite impios,
punite turpi thalamos qui uiolant stupro;
malos cauete, nulli nimium credite."
Haec elocuta concidit uirgo furens;
furens profecto, nam quae dixit perdidit.
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.
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