Babrius

Babrius or Babrius was a Greek fabulist of Italian origin, who lived in the late 1st century or in the 2nd century AD in the eastern part of the Roman Empire, probably in Syria.

He wrote Aesop and Libyan fables into Choliamben and also wrote their own fables, which he published in two books, the " Mythiamben ", of which 144 are fully preserved. He was referring to though as its predecessors Phaedrus and Aesop continue on the lives socially lower layers of the educational content ( teaching ) but the fable went back under the favor of poetic embellishment, so that his tales were entertaining episodes, which Promythion that and also the Epimythion sometimes even completely absent.

123 fables are in a manuscript, the Codex Athous obtained, which was found in 1842 by minoides Minas in a monastery on Mount Athos. Furthermore, there are some of his fables in the Collectio Augustana. Luzzatto tried a fragmentary reconstruction of 21 paraphrases.

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