It is said that he gave the preference to Phædrus and Æsop above himself, and some have thought that in this he could not have been sincere.
Phædrus and Ovid's Metamorphoses were the whole of his Latin erudition.
Phædrus to invert his proposition, and then you extorted an absurdity from this inversion.
Ilyssus, through which Socrates and Phædrus pass; in other dialogues we are conducted to the halls of the gymnasia, to the Academy, or to a banquet.
We find ourselves in some particular spot; in the Phædrus (p.
Phædrus might, with better grace, have omitted this so-called Fable.
Indeed, it is doubtful whether Phædrus survived to the time of Caligula: and it is more generally believed that the First and Second Books were written in the time of Augustus and Tiberius.
Those who think that Phædrus wrote after the time of Tiberius, suggest that Caligula is represented by the snake, who wreaked his cruelty on his former benefactors, Macro and Ennia.
The tales of Phædrus would you read, O Eutychus, you must be freed From business, that the mind unbent May take the author’s full intent.
This was a form of oath used generally by men, and Phædrus has been censured for here putting it in the mouth of Minerva.
It has been suggested that by “forti viro,” Phædrus means a military man.
It has been conjectured by some that Phædrus wrote these lines in prison, where he had been thrown through the malice of his enemies.
Judging from this passage it would appear that Phædrus was a Macedonian by birth, and not, as more generally stated, a Thracian.
It has been remarked that Phædrus here deviates from nature, in making the Serpent give a bad character of itself.
Phædrus by some pious monk, who, objecting to the following Fable, destroyed the leaf which contained the latter part of the present one, as well as some part of the next.
This and the next line are regarded by many as spurious: indeed Hare is disinclined to believe that this Fable was written by Phædrus at all.
Next Phædrus came, who was so far from complying with this rule, that he sometimes transposed the moral from the end to the commencement.
Phædrus has also declared that he held this opinion, and by the excellence of his work we are able to judge of that of the philosopher.
Phædrus was so succinct, some men found fault; Curt Æsop was far readier still to halt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
