Showing posts with label GreekAesop. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 7, 2012

Esope en trois langues


Esope en trois langues, introduced by B. Morin (1816)

This wonderful book contains a collection of Aesop's fables in Greek, Latin, and French, drawing on a wide range of Aesopic authors, including Phaedrus, Faernus, Desbillons, Lebeau, La Fontaine and Richer, among other French fabulists, with an alphabetical index in the back of the book, which is almost 500 pages in length.



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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Gilbertus: Tetrastichorum in Fabulas Aesopicas XII


Tetrastichorum in Fabulas Aesopicas XII by Christianus Gilbertus (1690)

This remarkable little book contains 12 fables of Aesop in Greek tetrastichs which are then rendered into Latin verse, with each fable told in eight different meters: iambic, scazons, trochaic, hexameters, choriambic, hendecasyllables, Sapphic, and anapests. Amazing!



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