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Definition of Aesop
1. Noun. Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC).
Definition of Aesop
1. Proper noun. An ancient Greek author, famous for the fables ascribed to him. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aesop
Literary usage of Aesop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introduction and Notes by William Caxton, Sir Walter Raleigh, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Walt (1910)
"... Aesop. (1483) EPILOGUE Now then I will finish all these fables with this tale
that followeth, which a worshipful priest and a parson told ..."
2. Greek Coins and Their Parent Cities by John Ward, George Francis Hill (1902)
"(His works preserved by the Latin translation of Phaedrus.) Aesop lived about
570 Bc (Villa ... Aesop ..."
3. Public School Methods (1921)
"Aesop had previously asked if he might carry the lightest package and had ...
When noon came Aesop was very tired. His package had been quite a tax on his ..."
4. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1880)
"This life represents Aesop as a perfect monster of ugliness and deformity ; a notion
... The notices however which we possess of Aesop are so scattered and ..."
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