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| legendary Greek fabulist. According to Herodotus, he was a slave who lived in Samos in the 6th cent. B.C. and eventually was freed by his master. Other accounts associate him with many wild adventures and connect him with such rulers as Solon and Croesus.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:   ´s p, -s p´´ from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- Fables
These 82 allegories remain part of everyday speech and provide eternal tales of caution. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XVII, Part 1.
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- Aesop, 3146 to 3152
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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