Aesop's fables

1. Birds Aristophanes 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   birds 2 passages anchored here

   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;

2. Peace Aristophanes 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   peace 2 passages anchored here

   Trygaeus explicitly names Aesop's fables as the source legitimizing his flying beetle.

   TRYGAEUS In Aesop's fables it was found to be the only winged thing that ever reached the gods.

3. Wasps Aristophanes 1 authority 1 citation · 3 passages

   wasps 3 passages anchored here

   Aesop's stories are explicitly invoked by name as persuasive precedent in two separate disputes.

   PHILOCLEON Aesop, walking home from dinner one evening, had a bold, drunken bitch barking at him.

4. Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 extended 1 citation

   letter 189

   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.

5. Vitae philosophorum Diogenes Laertius 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 5

   Demetrius of Phalerum's collection directly compiles and transmits Aesop's fables.

   Aesop’s Fables.

6. Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 1

   Aesop's fables are directly named as the recognized source of the image used to characterize genuinely beneficial precepts.

   Such a cool disposition to virtue and philosophy, as that philosopher said was in Plato’s scholars when young, often lasts in the most of us (as was hinted before) till our judgments grow to a solid firmness and maturity, and we begin to value those precepts that are able to beget a composure and greatness of mind, and diligently to trace and follow those discourses and precepts whose tracks (as i …

7. Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 4

   Explicitly invoked by name as a proverbial source.

   An ass from Aesop's well, thou comest only now, and already criest out.

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