Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern. Newbigging Thomas

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СКАЧАТЬ style="font-size:15px;">      Further, none of Æsop's contemporaries, nor any writers that immediately followed him, make mention of his alleged deformities. On the contrary, the Athenians, about two hundred years after his death, in order to perpetuate his memory and appearance, commissioned the celebrated sculptor Lysippus to produce a statue of Æsop, and this they erected in a prominent position in front of those of the seven sages, 'because,' says Phædrus,24 'their severe manner did not persuade, while the jesting of Æsop pleased and instructed at the same time.' It is improbable that the figure of a man monstrously deformed as Æsop is said to have been would have proved acceptable to the severe taste of the Greek mind. An epigram of Agathia, of which the following is a translation,25 celebrates the erection of this statue:

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      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 post, p. 76.

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.

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