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Aesop

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Ae·sop  (sp, -sp) Sixth century b.c.
Greek fabulist traditionally considered the author of Aesop's Fables, including "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "The Fox and the Grapes."
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Noun1.Aesop - Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC)
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THE LIFE and History of Aesop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity.
Fables by Aesop View in context
Do you know, you speak Greek as well as AEsop did, my dear La Fontaine.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
AEsop was a Greek slave who could not even write down his wonderful fables; yet all the world reads them.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
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