Babrius

Babrius

flourished 2nd century AD

      author of a collection of fables (fable) in Greek. Nothing is known of the author. The fables are for the most part versions of the stock stories associated with the name of Aesop. Babrius has rendered them into the scazon, or choliambic metre, which had already been adopted from the Greek by the Roman poets Catullus and Martial.

      Most of the Babrius fables are the beast stories typical of the genre. In language and style they are very simple, but the satirical element suggests that the stories are the product of sophisticated urban society. The fables, with those of Phaedrus, were edited with English translation by Ben Edwin Perry and published in 1965 (reissued in 1990).

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