fabulist

In the year 1610 a learned Swiss, Isaac Nicholas Nevelet, sent forth the third printed edition of these Fables, in a work entitled Mythologia Æsopica.

This was a noble effort to do honor to the great Fabulist, and was the most perfect collection of Æsopian Fables ever yet published.

It consisted, in addition to the collections of Fables given by Planudes, and reprinted in the various earlier editions, of one hundred and thirty-six new Fables never before published, from manuscripts in the library of the Vatican; of forty Fables attributed to Apthonius; and of forty-three from Babrius.

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