Phaedrus

Phaedrus (15 BC – AD 50) was a Roman fabulist, by birth a Macedonian and lived in the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius and Claudius.

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Fables

• Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
  • Book I, fable 2, line 31

• That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.
  • Book I, fable 9, line 1

• No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.
  • Book I, fable 18, line 1

• Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
  • Book I, fable 26, line 12

• Non semper ea sunt quae videntur.
  • Translation: Things are not always what they seem.
  • Book IV, fable 2, line 5

• To add insult to injury
  • Book V, line 3

• Once lost, Jupiter himself cannot bring back opportunity.
  • Book V, fable 7, line 4