Sunday, October 16, 2005
Fable
Phaedrus 1.7 (tr. Ben Edwin Perry):
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A fox, after looking by chance at a tragic actor's mask, remarked: "O what a majestic face is here, but it has no brains!" This is a twit for those whom Lady Luck has granted rank and renown, but denied them common sense.
Personam tragicam forte vulpes viderat:
"O quanta species" inquit "cerebrum non habet!"
Hoc illis dictum est quibus honorem et gloriam
Fortuna tribuit, sensum communem abstulit.
