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AEsopic

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Ae·so·pi·an  (-sp-n) also Ae·sop·ic (-spk)
adj.
1. Relating to or characteristic of the animal fables of Aesop.
2. Using or having ambiguous or allegorical meanings, especially to elude political censorship: "They could express their views only in a diluted form, resorting to Aesopian hints and allusions" (Isaac Deutscher).


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He is probably speaking of the collection of fables translated in the Augustan age by the freedman Phaedrus from the Aesopic corpus, which then went through innumerable permutations in the Middle Ages.
Creating canons in fifteenth-century Ferrara: Angelo Decembrio's De ... by Celenza, Christopher S. / Renaissance Quarterly
In these stories which date from approximately the fourth or fifth century BC, and which were preceded by an even more ancient series of stories associated with the sage Kasayapa, there are at least twelve tales that are identical with fables included as part of the Aesopic tradition" (85).
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