A doggy fable

I read this in Babrius tonight and thought of Dawn:

"A man about to go on a journey said to his dog standing by:

'Why are you gaping? Get everything ready; you are going with me.'

The dog wagged his tail, fawning on his master, and said: 'I've got everything; it's you who are delaying.'"

The wisdom of some old Roman dude

"Vulpis ad personam tragicam"

Personam tragicam forte vulpes viderat:

"O quanta species inquit cerebrum non habet." -- Phaedrus

No, I don't understand the Latin without a handy translation to guide me. But I like the look and the sound of it. And the sentiment is classic. Here it is in English:

The Fox Before the Tragic Actor's Mask

A fox, after looking by chance at a tragic actor's mask, remarked: "O what a majestic face is here, but it has no brains!"