Three hundred and twelve short fables with their morals: the stories Greek children learned and Greek orators quoted. Aesop himself is a shadow. Herodotus says he was a slave on Samos in the sixth century BC, and the fables were written down by others long after.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with The Fables that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: George Fyler Townsend, 1867. Source: Gutenberg 21.
The text here is George Fyler Townsend’s translation, 1867, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 21, set unaltered. His preface is not printed.
The order is Townsend’s, not an ancient one, so the fables are set fifty to a page simply to page through them.
Public domain, and free to read, copy and quote. Nothing on this page is written by anyone living: the words are the translator’s and the counts are the text’s.