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.

Remember Aesop's fables.

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

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 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.

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 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.

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.