Aesop's fables
Aesop
cited 3 times by 3 works in the library · not held
The library does not hold this work. Three of its books reach for it anyway — that is what puts it on the corpus's wanted list.
1 neutral 1 extended
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3 citations · from 3 works-
Birds Aristophanes 1 citation · 2 passages
Pisthetaerus twice invokes Aesop by name as an authoritative source to ground his arguments, first about cosmic priority and later about the risks of alliance.
He is the one who tells us that the lark was born before all other creatures, indeed before the Earth;
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Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 extended 1 citation
Explicitly named as 'the fable of Aesop'.
Now those who have taken up against us this groundless hatred seem to me to do something very like the fable of Aesop.
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Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation
Explicitly invoked by name as a proverbial source.
An ass from Aesop's well, thou comest only now, and already criest out.
book 4 ¶
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