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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."

Aesop [ˈiːsɒp]
n
(Biographies / Aesop (?620 bc-564 bc) M, Greek, WRITING: writer of fables) ?620-564 bc, Greek author of fables in which animals are given human characters and used to satirize human failings
Aesopian , Aesopic adj
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Noun1.Aesop - Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC)
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Aesop [ˈiːsɒp] NEsopo
Aesop's FablesFábulas fpl de Esopo
Aesop
nÄsop m; Aesop’s fablesdie äsopischen Fabeln
Aesop [ˈiːsɒp] nEsopo


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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.
Do you know, you speak Greek as well as AEsop did, my dear La Fontaine.
AEsop was a Greek slave who could not even write down his wonderful fables; yet all the world reads them.
 
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