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Demetrius

Greek rhetorician

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compilation of Aesop’s fables

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    In fable, parable, and allegory: Fable

    …already receded into legend when Demetrius of Phaleron, a rhetorician, compiled an edition of Aesop’s fables in the 4th century bc. The poetic resources of the form developed slowly. A versified Latin collection made by Phaedrus, a freed slave in the house of the Roman emperor Augustus, included fables invented…

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