fables
quoted 2 times by 2 works · not held
Most often carried — quoted as a source. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
2 carried
2 extendedin the voice of Basil of Caesarea 1
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in the voice of Basil of Caesarea
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Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 extended 1 citation
Basil explicitly invokes Aesop's crab as an image.
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
Corresponds to the citation of Aesop's fables as the work Socrates versified.
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.
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