Fables
Aesop
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Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 neutral 1 citation
Aesop is named explicitly via the image of his crab.
Do not force the reed to walk crookedly, like Aesop's crab, but go straight ahead, as though walking along a carpenter's rule, which everywhere preserves the level and removes all that is uneven.
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Phaedo Plato 1 extended 1 citation · 2 passages
Aesop's fables are directly named as the work Socrates versified while in prison, extending them into metrical form.
and after the god, considering that a poet, if he is really to be a poet, must compose myths and not speeches, since I was not a maker of myths, I took the myths of Aesop, which I had at hand and knew, and turned into verse the first I came upon.
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