Phaedrus Quotes

Latin fabulist and probably a Thracian slave

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

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Alternative Names: Gaius Julius Phaedrus • Phædrus

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He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Ill have I brook’d that nobler foes
Should triumph o’er my dying woes:
But, scorn of nature, forced to lie
And take thy taunts, is twice to die.