Driven by thirst, a Wolf and a Lamb had come to the same stream; the Wolf stood above, and the Lamb at a distance below. Then, the spoiler, prompted by a ravenous maw, alleged a pretext for a quarrel. “Why,” said he, “have you made the water muddy for me while I am drinking?” The Fleece-bearer, trembling, answered: “Prithee, Wolf, how can I do what you complain of? The water is flowing downwards from you to where I am drinking.” The other, disconcerted by the force of truth, exclaimed: “Si...

The first century fabulist Gaius Julius Phaedrus was the first recorded versifier of Aesop’s fables into Latin, retold in a loose iambic metre. They are composed in a lively terse and simple Latin verse, with some elaborate style, serving as excellent model for students of the language. They were written not only to amuse and teach, but also to provide compelling satirical comments on the turbulent social and political life of first century Rome. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides e...

The Fables of Phædrus presents one of the earliest substantial bodies of Latin prose-like verse devoted to the Aesopic tradition. Composed chiefly in iambic senarii, these compact narratives animate animals—foxes, wolves, lions, asses, and birds—to expose vanity, injustice, political power, and the precarious condition of the weak. Phædrus preserves familiar moral patterns while sharpening them through irony, epigrammatic compression, pointed dialogue, and slyly self-conscious prologues an...

This carefully compiled collection includes prose translations and verse translations of Phaedrus fables.Contents:THE FABLES: PROSE TRANSLATIONTHE NEW FABLES, BY SOME ATTRIBUTED TO PHÆDRUSÆSOPIAN FABLES. THE AUTHORS OF WHICH ARE NOT KNOWNTHE FABLES: VERSE TRANSLATION

In "The Fables of Phædrus," the Roman poet Phaedrus revisits the timeless tradition of fable writing, drawing extensively from Aesop's narratives while infusing his works with a sharp satirical edge reflective of the societal and political dynamics of ancient Rome. Phaedrus employs a concise and elegant literary style characterized by vivid imagery and moral clarity, inviting readers to confront the follies and virtues of human nature through the lens of anthropomorphized animals. His fabl...

Animal fables are said to have originated with Aesop, a semilegendary Samian slave, but the earliest surviving record of the fables comes from the Latin poet Phaedrus, who introduced the new genre to Latin literature. This verse translation of The Fables is the first in English in more than two hundred years. In addition to the familiar animal fables, about a quarter of the book includes such diverse material as prologues and epilogues, historical anecdotes, short stories, enlarged proverb...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.***Synopsis:The fable is a small narrative, in prose or verse, which has as its main characteristic the aim of conveying a moral lesson (the “moral”), implicitly or, more normally, explicitly expressed. Even though the modern concept of fable is that it should have animals or inanimated objects as characters – an idea supported by the works of famous fabulists such as Aesop and La Fontaine – Phaed...

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Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. Wisdom from one of the greatest philosophical minds in all of Roman history Divided into twelve books, these meditations chronicle Aurelius's personal quest for self-improvement. This enduring text from one of history's greatest warriors and leaders has been compared to St. Augustine's Confessions for its timelessness, clarity, and candor. These writings, composed between 161 and 180...

The Happy Life is a dialogue written by Seneca the Younger around the year 58 AD. It was intended for his older brother Gallio, to whom Seneca also dedicated his dialogue entitled De Ira ('On Anger'). It is divided into 28 chapters that present the moral thoughts of Seneca at their most mature. Seneca explains that the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reason – reason meant not only using logic, but also understanding the processes of nature.