"Postquam nulla viam virtus dedit, admovet omnes indignata nova calliditate dolos."
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Avianus
(or possibly Avienus; fl. c. AD 400) was a Latin writer of fables. He appears to have lived at Rome and to have been a pagan. Forty-two fables by him are known, some of which became connected with epimythia ('morals') of later origin through the mediaeval manuscript tradition.
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