Aesop

Whence, I suppose, Aesop also composed the fable that, being wise, the owl advised the birds, when the oak was first springing up, not to allow it but to destroy it by every means;

I can tell you yet another story which I heard from a Phrygian, a kinsman of Aesop, who sojourned here, which he told about Orpheus and you.

But indeed you have suffered such a thing as Aesop said the eyes suffered, when they thought themselves worth most, but saw the mouth enjoying the other things and indeed the honey, being most sweet.

Chilon was an old man about the 52nd Olympiad, when Aesop the fabulist was flourishing.

The tale is also told that he inquired of Aesop what Zeus was doing and received the answer:

He also composed a fable of Aesop, not very skilfully, beginning:

Such, at any rate, according to Hermippus, is the story of Pataecus, who used to boast that he had Aesop’s soul.

O Solon, our converse with kings should be either as rare, or as pleasing as is possible.

He is the one who tells us that the lark was born before all other creatures, indeed before the Earth;

Remember Aesop's fables.

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

TRYGAEUS It came long ago, in enmity with the eagle, rolling out its eggs and taking its revenge.

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

PHILOCLEON The Delphians once, against Aesop —

PHILOCLEON — accused him of stealing a bowl of the god's;

The latter are subdivided into comparisons or fables, such as those of Aesop and the Libyan.

Aesop, when defending at Samos a demagogue who was being tried for his life, related the following anecdote.

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.

" Whence too Aesop said, not amiss, that swine squeal loudest when they are dragged off, knowing in themselves that they are good for nothing else but sacrifice.

for very many years later than these kings who left the pyramids came Rhodopis, who was Thracian by birth, and a slave of Iadmon son of Hephaestopolis the Samian, and a fellow-slave of Aesop the story-writer.

when the Delphians, obeying an oracle, issued many proclamations summoning anyone who wanted it to accept compensation for the killing of Aesop, no one accepted it except the son of Iadmon 's son, another Iadmon;

Or have you not observed how great are the advantages of the Spartan kings, and how their wives are kept under statutory ward of the ephors, in order that every possible precaution may be taken against the king being born of any but the Heracleidae?

And I think, he said, if Aesop had thought of them, he would have made a fable telling how they were at war and god wished to reconcile them, and when he could not do that, he fastened their heads together, and for that reason, when one of them comes to anyone, the other follows after.

Several others have asked about the poems you have composed, the metrical versions of Aesop’s fables and the hymn to Apollo, and Evenus asked me the day before yesterday why you never wrote any poetry before, composed these verses after you came to prison.

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.

This Aesop, they tell us, was once acting in a theatre the part of Atreus planning to take vengeance on Thyestes, when one of the assistants suddenly ran across the scene, and the actor, losing control of himself in the intensity of his passion, smote him with his sceptre and laid him dead.

The people of Seleucia, however, appreciated the wisdom of Aesop when they saw Surena with a wallet of obscenities from the Milesiaca in front of him, but trailing behind him a Parthian Sybaris in so many waggon-loads of concubines.

For the death of men in the hour of their triumph is not, as Aesop used to say, most grievous, but most blessed, since it puts in safe keeping their enjoyment of their blessings and leaves no room for change of fortune.

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;

Yet this to me, Marcus Sedatus, is out of question, that those precepts of philosophy which seem not to be delivered with a designed gravity, such as becomes philosophers, take most with persons that are very young, and meet with a more ready acceptance and compliance from them.

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

Him they surname Soter (Saviour), and Christ, and Sermo "of his fathers," and "All-things" now, as being constructed out of the deflowering of all—the Jackdaw of Aesop, the Pandora of Hesiod, the Dish of Accius, the Hotchpotch of Nestor, the Miscellany of Ptolemy.