"I knew that before you were born." Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself. - Phaedrus

"I knew that before you were born." Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself.

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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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A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"
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