Fables

1. Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 neutral 1 citation

   letter 334

   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.

2. Phaedo Plato 1 extended 1 citation · 2 passages

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   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.

3. Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat Plutarch 1 extended 1 citation · 2 passages

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   Plutarch cites Aesop's fables both as popular reading for the young and as the material Socrates turns to when attempting verse, extending the essay's definition of poetry as inherently fictional.

   Wherefore Socrates, being induced by some dreams to attempt something in poetry, and finding himself unapt, by reason that he had all his lifetime been the champion of severe truth, to hammer out of his own invention a likely fiction, made choice of Esop’s fables to turn into verse;

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