1
'Plato and Platonism,' by Walter Pater. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893, p. 225.
2
Aphthonius flourished at Antioch, at what time is uncertain. Forty of his Æsopian fables, with a Latin version by Kimedoncius, were printed from a MS. in the Palatine Library at the b
1
'Plato and Platonism,' by Walter Pater. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893, p. 225.
2
Aphthonius flourished at Antioch, at what time is uncertain. Forty of his Æsopian fables, with a Latin version by Kimedoncius, were printed from a MS. in the Palatine Library at the beginning of the seventeenth century. 'The Æsopian Fable,' by Sir Brooke Boothby, Bart. Edinburgh: Constable and Co., 1809. Preface, p. xxxi.
3
'Even trees speak, not only wild beasts.' – Phædrus, Book i., Prologue.
4
'Essay on Fable.'
5
'Fables Original and Selected,' by G. Moir Bussey. London: Willoughby and Co., 1842.
6
'The Fables of Æsop,' as first printed by William Caxton in 1484. London: David Nutt, 1889, vol. i., p. 204.
7
'The Tatler,' No. 147, vol. iii., p. 205.
8
2 Samuel xii. 1-7.
9
Quoted from James's 'Fables of Æsop.' Murray, 1848.
10
Preface, 'Fables,' 1668.
11
'History of the Æsopic Fable,' p. 148.
12
Essay: 'Of Books.'
13
Boothby's translation.
14
G. Moir Bussey: Introduction to 'Fables.'
15
'Essay on Fable.'
16
Swift: Preface to 'The Battle of the Books.'
17
'Institutes of Oratory,' book i., chap. ix.
18
'Pairing Time Anticipated.'
19
Suidas.
20
The mina was twelve ounces, or a sum estimated as equal to £3 15s. English.
21
See
22
Spelt variously Locman, Lôqman, Lokman.
23
This woman is notorious in history as a courtesan who essayed to compound for her sins by votive offerings to the temple at Delphi. She is also said to have built the Lesser Pyramid out of her accumulated riches, but this is denied by Herodotus, who claims for the structure a more ancient and less discreditable foundation, being the work, as he asserts, of Mycerinus, King of Egypt (Herod., ii. 134).
24
Phædrus, Epilogue, book ii.
25
Boothby, Preface, p. xxxiv.