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also did not regard
the employment of fables as beneath the dignity
even of poetry; witness his lines that narrate
“What the shrewd fox to the sick lion told.”
The Greeks call such fables αἶνοι (tales) and, as I
have already1 remarked, Aesopean or Libyan stories,
while some Roman writers term them “apologues,”
though the name has not found general acceptance.
1 In the preceding section. cp. Arist. Rhet. II. xx. 3 for “Libyan stories.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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