-
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...
-
Babrius and Phaedrus, (Loeb
classical Library) Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1965.
English translations of 143 Gr****
verse fables by
Babrius,...
- 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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
should unite, and the
profits divide. In the
extended Gr****
telling of
Babrius it is a lion and a wild
donkey who go
hunting together, the
first outstanding...
-
rendered the
fables into
Latin in the 1st
century CE. At
about the same time
Babrius turned the
fables into Gr**** choliambics. A 3rd-century author, Titi****...
-
Fontaine (III.11) is
almost as
concise and
pointed as the
early versions of
Babrius and
Phaedrus and
certainly contributed to the story's po****rity. A century...
-
Nearly all the
fables are to be
found in
Babrius, who was
probably Avi****'s
source of inspiration, but as
Babrius wrote in Gr****, and Avi****
speaks of...
-
supposed to have been a
slave in
ancient Greece around 550 BCE. When
Babrius set down
fables from the
Aesopica in
verse for a ****enistic
Prince "Alexander"...
