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    suggested that Babrius may have been his tutor; probably, however, Branchus is a purely fictitious name. There is no mention of Babrius in ancient writers...
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    Babrius and Phaedrus, (Loeb Classical Library) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965. English translations of 143 Greek verse fables by Babrius,...
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    Hyginus, Fabulae Theogony 5 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 95; Latin text). Babrius II.22 Babrius I.71 Aesopica Lucian, Confabulations of the Marine Deities XI (pp...
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  • Phonoi and the Keres. In Aesop's fable of "War and his Bride", told by Babrius and numbered 367 in the Perry Index, it is related how Polemos drew Hubris...
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  • should unite, and the profits divide. In the extended Greek telling of Babrius it is a lion and a wild donkey who go hunting together, the first outstanding...
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    eventually disappear. Some centuries later, a similar retort was recorded by Babrius when Aesop was mocked by shipbuilders. In this case he told them the creation...
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    rendered the fables into Latin in the 1st century CE. At about the same time Babrius turned the fables into Greek choliambics. A 3rd-century author, Titianus...
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    Greek scatalogical humour. There is a poetical version in the Greek of Babrius, but thereafter written accounts do not seem to continue. The Victorian...
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    Fontaine (III.11) is almost as concise and pointed as the early versions of Babrius and Phaedrus and certainly contributed to the story's popularity. A century...
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  • English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Online version. Perry, Ben Edwin, Babrius, Phaedrus. Fables., translated by Ben Edwin Perry, Loeb Classical Library...
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    The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; /loʊb/, German: [løːp]) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but...
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    supposed to have been a slave in ancient Greece around 550 BCE. When Babrius set down fables from the Aesopica in verse for a Hellenistic Prince "Alexander"...
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    Mous" La Fontaine's Fables Translators Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of...
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    Mous" La Fontaine's Fables Translators Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of...
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  • copies of Babrius were widely accepted. Modern scholarship labels some post-1850 Babrius material purportedly copied by Minas as by "pseudo-Babrius". George...
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    Nearly all the fables are to be found in Babrius, who was probably Avianus's source of inspiration, but as Babrius wrote in Greek, and Avianus speaks of...
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    enquiring any further. There are versions of the fable in both the Greek of Babrius and the Latin of Phaedrus, and it was retold in Latin throughout the Middle...
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    trans. W.R.Paton, New York 1916, poem 272, p.145 Ben Edwin Perry (1965). Babrius and Phaedrus. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University...
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    have eaten, I have drunk, I have taken a bath; if I die, what do I care?" Babrius records a variant in which it is a mouse that accepts its end in this philosophical...
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  • Ausonius Autrodius Autronius Avianus Avidius Avienus Avilius Avius Axius Babrius Baebius Balonius Balventius Bantius Barbatius Barrius Barsius Bavius Bellicius...
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    concept is found in the fable of Hercules and the Wagoner, first recorded by Babrius in the 1st century AD. In it, a wagon falls into a ravine, or in later...
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    evils. It is confirmed in the new era by an Aesopic fable recorded by Babrius, in which the gods send the jar containing blessings to humans. Rather...
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  • Mous" La Fontaine's Fables Translators Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of...
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    Jones, Aesop's Fables: A New Translation, 1912. Aesop for Children, 1919 Babrius Hieronymus Osius Fable 53 Jennifer Speake, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of...
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    trying to keep up with his rich patron Maecenas. His telling follows the Babrius version in which an ox has stepped on a brood of young frogs and the father...
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    whose lesson is that virtue is forgotten in the pursuit of ambition. Babrius has the fox end with a joke at the crow's credulity in his Greek version...
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  • Herodes, Cercidas, and the Greek cholliambic poets (except Callimachus and Babrius) (London: Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929) Elegy And Iambus...
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    of lists. Jossey-Bass. p. 13. ISBN 0787975508. Ben Edwin Perry (1965). Babrius and Phaedrus. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University...
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    reward enough for you." In early versions, where Phaedrus has a crane, Babrius has a heron, but a wolf is involved in both. The story is very close in...
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    overcome alone, they are invincible combined. The fable was included by Babrius in his collection. Later, Pseudo-Plutarch told the story of King Scilurus...
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