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Things are not always what they seem. — Phaedrus

Fable and fairy tale

Things are not always what they seem.

In the original Latin

Non semper ea sunt quae videntur.

Phaedrus
50
★ 2.1
Provenance
Current citation
Phaedrus and Babrius. Fables, translated by Ben Edwin Perry. Harvard University Press, 1965, bk. 4, fable 2.
Original citation
Phaedrus. Fables. c. 50 AD, bk. 4, fable 2.

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