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 Greek 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...

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"...

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 Greek 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 Greek choliambics. A 3rd-century author, Titianus...

Greek scatalogical humour. There is a poetical version in the Greek of Babrius, but thereafter written accounts do not seem to continue. The Victorian...

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...

container was a prison of curses subsequently released on mankind, the poet Babrius preserved a later alternative Aesopic aetiology in which the jar contained...

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...

copies of Babrius were widely accepted. Modern scholarship labels some post-1850 Babrius material purportedly copied by Minas as by "pseudo-Babrius". George...

Mous" La Fontaine's Fables Translators Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of...

Mous" La Fontaine's Fables Translators Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of...

The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; /loʊb/, German: [løːp]) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but...

away. It is this version that appears as Fable 56 in the collection by Babrius. The second version is listed as number 358 in the Perry Index. In this...

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...

Ausonius Autrodius Autronius Avianus Avidius Avienus Avilius Avius Axius Babrius Baebius Balonius Balventius Bantius Barbatius Barrius Barsius Bavius Bellicius...

Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-19-864227-X. Perry, Ben Edwin, Babrius, Phaedrus. Fables., translated by Ben Edwin Perry, Loeb Classical Library...

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...

overcome alone, they are invincible combined. The fable was included by Babrius in his collection. Later, Pseudo-Plutarch told the story of King Scilurus...

(1819) Aristaenetus, Epistolae (1822) Eunapius, Vitae Sophistarum (1822) Babrius, Fables (1844) Tzetzes, Allegoriae Iliadis (1851) a Collection of Greek...

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...

ISBN 978-0-674-99720-2. Online version at Harvard University Press. Perry, Ben Edwin, Babrius, Phaedrus. Fables., translated by Ben Edwin Perry, Loeb Classical Library...

recorded by Babrius fifteen centuries previously. Aesopica The Wordsworth Dictionary of Proverbs, p. 650 Rev. John Davies, Fables of Babrius translated...

of lists. Jossey-Bass. p. 13. ISBN 0787975508. Ben Edwin Perry (1965). Babrius and Phaedrus. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University...

Jones, Aesop's Fables: A New Translation, 1912. Aesop for Children, 1919 Babrius Hieronymus Osius Fable 53 Jennifer Speake, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of...

Mous" La Fontaine's Fables Translators Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of...

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...