Fabulae Aesopiae Volume 1

by Phaedrus

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 ...aucto-670. rem. Vide Colonies. Opuscul. cap. (4) Faciliori materia? et tennis bulas, Hujus ergo materia ducem (1) nobis jEsopum noveris, qui responso Delphici Apollinis monitus ridicula (fabulas, quae risum (2) movent) orsus est, ut legenda firmaret, i. e. ut ridiculis suis auctoritatem conciliaret, hominesque ad audiendum legendumque invitaret, firmavit ea Apollinis oraculo (3). Verum has pro exemple fabulas et Socrates (4) divinis ojieribus indidit, ( pro exemplo adduxit in Operibus suis, ) et poemali suo (Horatius) Flaccus aplavit(b), quod in se sub jocorum communium (6) specie vit argumenta (historian)) contineant. Quas (fabulas. Esopias) Gr cis iambi s (Choliambis) Babrius repetens in duo volumina coartavit(S); Ph drus etiam partem aliquant quinque in libelles resolvit (partem fabularum, ab iEsopo inventarum, in libros quinque redegit, vel, e Graeco sermone in iambos transtulit Latinos, seu, versibus polivit(g) senariis). De his ergo (jEsopi fabulis, quas alii vel pro exemplo adduxe (7) Laudat Cannegieterus Ovid. Trist. V, I, 10: Sumque urssumenli conditor ipse raei. (8) Vide supra Notit. Litter, de Babrio. Sed Marcbcsellus, ut hanc Aviani Epistolam facerct suspectam, putat, esse intelligendum Ignatium, vulgo Gabriam, quem - - Gnecis Iambis eomposuisse, et Saeculo p. C. N. nono vixisse, supra dixi. (9) Quum Phaidrus, praeter Jesopias, seripserit quoque fabulas, a se inventas, ut ipse dicit Prol. V, 1, et Avianus dicat, eum fabulas JEsopi inV libros resolvisse, nulla facta mentione fabularum, a Pha-dro colligit hinc Marchesellus, in Epistola Aviani de Phaedro nostro non esse sermonem; epistolam esse suppositam, et a ficto, non vero, Aviano scriptam. S..

186 pages, Paperback

First published October 27, 2012

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.