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  • Æsop:
    • his era, 33;
    • birthplace, 33;
    • his masters when a slave, 33;
    • his mission to Delphi, 34;
    • his death, 35;
    • disparagement of his personal appearance, 36;
    • due to Planudes, 37;
    • his mate or wife, Rhodope, 38;
    • Lysippus' statue of Æsop, 39;
    • stories related of, 42;
    • Æsop and the figs, 44;
    • the pannier of bread, 45;
    • bought by Zanthus, 45;
    • Zanthus' foolish wager, 46;
    • Zanthus' wife restored, 46;
    • Æsop and the mean fellow, 47;
    • at play, 48;
    • and the author, 48;
    • sayings of, 49;
    • at the Court of Croesus, 49;
    • as a fabulist, 97
  • Æsop and the Ass, 115
  • 'Æsop, G. Washington,' parody on Æsop's fables, 127
  • Æsopian fable or apologue defined, 5;
    • opinions regarding the, 52;
    • characteristics of the, 55
  • Ademar, 128
  • Agathia's epigram on Lysippus' statue of Æsop, 39
  • Aitken, Dr., fables by, 127
  • Aldus' edition of the fables, 59
  • Alfonso, 128
  • Aphthonius, definition of fable by, 2
  • Apologue or fable, definition of the, 1
  • Applicability of fables to every-day life, 58
  • Application of fables, 13
  • Arabian fables, 80
  • Archilochus, a writer of fables, 54
  • Aristotle on fables, 68
  • Arrogant Mule mortified, The, 75
  • Arwaker, Edmund, 'Truth in Fiction; or, Morality in Masquerade,' fables by, 126
  • Ass's Shadow, The, 79
  • 'Assemblies of Æsopian Fables,' 55
  • Avienus, 55, 61
  • Babrius, 55, 61, 65
  • Bayle on Babrius, 66
  • Beau and the Butterfly, The, 133
  • Bee and the Coquette, The, 130
  • Bee and the Spider, The, 111
  • Belly and the Members, The, 54, 68;
    • the oldest known fable, 69
  • Bentley, Dr., ridicules the account of Æsop's deformity, 40;
    • on Babrius, 66
  • Berington on 'The Arabian or Saracenic Learning,' 85
  • Bias, 34
  • Bitteux, 60
  • Bonus Accursius, his collection of fables, 59
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  • The Piper turned Fisherman, 76
  • The Shepherd and the Nightingale, 116
  • The Snake and the Hedgehog, 56
  • Solomon's Ghost, 116
  • The Toad and the Ephemeron, 110
  • The Trees in Search of a King, 71
  • The Trooper and his Armour, 113
  • The Two Thrushes, 118
  • The Viper and the File, 102
  • The Wolf and the Shepherds, 55
  • The Wolves and the Sheep, 78
  • Fables, writers of:

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