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aesop
/ˈiˌsɑp/
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What does aesop mean?
proper noun
- An Ancient Greek author, famous for the fables ascribed to him.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈiˌsɑp/
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Let Aesop fable in a winter’s night; His currish riddle sorts not with this place.
I found that I could not comprehend the coyote as animal hero of Pueblo and Plains Indians apart from the Reynard of Aesop and Chaucer.
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They would have furnished Aesop with a fable, for the feathered crest in which they seem to take so much satisfaction is often their fatal snare.
For the death of happy men is not, as Aesop observes, most grievous, but most blessed, since it secures their felicity, and puts it out of fortune's power.
There was a bit of Bunyan in him as well as of AEsop and Rousseau and Thoreau--the mixture that found coherency in his most peculiarly patient and forbearing temper is what gives at once the quaintness, the freedom, and yet the odd didactic something that is never wanting.