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    Latini Minores (1879–1883) Robinson Ellis, The Fables of Avianus (1887) The Fables of Avianus, translated by David R. Slavitt, Johns Hopkins University...
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    Middle Ages and became part of European high literature. The Roman writer Avianus (active around 400 AD) wrote Latin fables mostly based on Babrius, using...
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  • taken from the prose Romulus. He also composed a shorter Novus Avianus, taken from Avianus. A supplementary poem to De laudibus divinae sapientiae, called...
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    pseudo-Dositheus and later appears in the 4th–5th-century Latin verse collection by Avianus. The history of this fable in antiquity and the Middle Ages is tracked...
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  • snatch-thief. The Latin version of the fable first appeared centuries later in Avianus, as De Vento et Sole (Of the Wind and the Sun, Fable 4); early versions...
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  • 1349), one hundred in number, which were based principally on those of Avianus (4th century) and the Anonymus Neveleti (edited by Isaac Nicolas Nevelet...
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    Titianus, is said to have rendered the fables into prose in a work now lost. Avianus (of uncertain date, perhaps the 4th century) translated 42 of the fables...
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    Julianus Titianus translated into prose, and in the early 5th century Avianus put 42 of these fables into Latin elegiacs. The largest, oldest known and...
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    engineer of uncertain date. Marcus Aemilius Avianus, a friend of Cicero, and the patron of Avianus Evander and Avianus Hammonius. Aemilius Macer, a poet who...
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    La Fontaine's Fables Translators Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of Cheriton...
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    versions of the fable in Greek sources and a late Latin version recorded by Avianus. It concerns a fir tree that boasted to a bramble, 'You are useful for...
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  • chastised. In addition to the Greek versions, there is a Latin version by Avianus, dating from the later fifth century. This version was adapted by William...
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  • Aufidius Aulius Aurelius Aurius Aurunculeius Ausonius Autrodius Autronius Avianus Avidius Avienus Avilius Avius Axius Babrius Baebius Balonius Balventius...
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    La Fontaine's Fables Translators Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of Cheriton...
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  • Lipsiae : In aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Alan Cameron, "Macrobius, Avienus, and Avianus" The Classical Quarterly New Series, 17.2 (November 1967), pp 385–399....
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    a valuable resource, or to an unprofitable action motivated by greed. Avianus and Caxton tell different stories of a goose that lays a golden egg, where...
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    Versions of the fable are found in the verse collections of Babrius (140) and Avianus (34), and in several prose collections including those attributed to Syntipas...
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    of dissertations on the Astronomica, with emendations. He also treated Avianus, Velleius Paterculus and the Christian poet Orientius, whose poem Commonitorium...
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    Phaedrus, in Avianus's letter to Theodosius, and in the titles of three of the fables, possibly added by scribes on the authority of Avianus. Some critics...
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  • La Fontaine's Fables Translators Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of Cheriton...
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    Tibullus (1829); Genesius (1834); Terentianus Maurus (1836); Babrius (1845); Avianus (1845); Gaius (1841–1842); the Agrimensores Romani (1848–1852); and Lucilius...
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  • fable was recorded in Greek by Babrius, and afterwards was Latinised by Avianus. When William Caxton featured the story in 1484, he added a comment advising...
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  • purposes; its authors including: Horace (1818), Virgil (1818), Phaedrus with Avianus, Publilius Syrus and Dionysius Cato (1823), Sallust (1825), Tacitus (1825)...
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  • likely sources include the Latin translations of Aesop by Romulus and Avianus and of the Panchatantra. Berechiah's work adds a layer of Biblical quotations...
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    Hadrian. Nemesianus. Reposianus. Tiberianus. Distichs of Cato. Phoenix. Avianus. Rutilius Claudius Namatianus. Others L060) Volume I. Amphitryon. The Comedy...
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  • very greatest Theodosius" (Theodosi optime) in a dedicatory epistle to Avianus's Fables. This was mistakenly reversed in later manuscripts to "Ambrosius...
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    Greek, beginning with Babrius, and there is a later latinised version by Avianus. In the 4th century CE, the rhetorician Themistius introduced a variant...
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  • avìa hà avutu avissa Nua avìmu avìamu hamu avutu avìssamu Vua avíti avìati hat'avutu or avít' avutu avvissati Iddri hannu avìanu hannu avutu avissaru...
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  • Avienius, commonly (mis)spelled Avienus Aviena gens, ancient Roman family Avianus, also spelled Avienus This disambiguation page lists articles about people...
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    It is numbered 18 in the Perry Index. Babrius records it in Greek and Avianus in Latin. The story concerns a small fry caught by a fisherman (or "angler")...
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