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Papilio et vespa: Non praeteritam sed praesentem aspiciendam esse fortunam.

Papilio vespam praetervolitans viderat.
O sortem iniquam! dum vivebant corpora,
Quorum ex reliquiis animam nos accepimus,
Ego eloquens in pace, fortis proeliis,
5Arte omni princeps inter aequales fui.
En cuncta: levitas putris et volito cinis!
Tu qui fuisti mulus clitellarius,
Quemcumque visum est laedis infixo aculeo.
Et vespa dignam moribus vocem edidit:
10Non qui fuerimus, sed qui nunc simus vide.
Fabulae Aesopiae. Phaedrus, Augusti libertus. L. Mueller. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1876.

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