Ill have I brook’d that nobler foes Should triumph o’er my … - Phaedrus

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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.

Phaedrus

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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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Non semper ea sunt quae videntur.

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

That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.

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. - Phaedrus

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