Phaedrus: The Fables

by Phaedrus, Christopher Smart (Translator), Henry Thomas Riley (Translator)

1042 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 20, 2020

About the author

Gaius Julius Phaedrus or Phaeder (c. 15 BC–c. 50 AD) was a 1st-century AD Roman fabulist and the first versifier of a collection of Aesop's fables into Latin. Nothing is recorded of his life except for what can be inferred from his poems, and there was little mention of his work during late antiquity. It was not until the discovery of a few imperfect manuscripts during and following the Renaissance that his importance emerged, both as an author and in the transmission of the fables.

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[Kayli Blanchford]

Wolf: You spoke to me badly six months ago
Sheep: I was not even born then
Wolf: By god it was your father