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    Latini Minores (1879–1883) Robinson Ellis, The Fables of Avianus (1887) The Fables of Avianus, translated by David R. Slavitt, Johns Hopkins University...
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    pseudo-Dositheus and later appears in the 4th–5th-century Latin verse collection by Avianus. The history of this fable in antiquity and the Middle Ages is tracked...
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  • snatch-thief. The Latin version of the fable first appeared centuries later in Avianus, as De Vento et Sole (Of the Wind and the Sun, Fable 4); early versions...
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    Titianus, is said to have rendered the fables into prose in a work now lost. Avianus (of uncertain date, perhaps the 4th century) translated 42 of the fables...
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    La Fontaine's Fables Translators Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of Cheriton...
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    La Fontaine's Fables Translators Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of Cheriton...
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    Julianus Titianus translated into prose, and in the early 5th century Avianus put 42 of these fables into Latin elegiacs. The largest, oldest known and...
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  • Isopet-Avionnet indicates that the fables are drawn from both Aesop and Avianus. The origin of the term 'Ysopet' dates back to the twelfth century, where...
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    a valuable resource, or to an unprofitable action motivated by greed. Avianus and Caxton tell different stories of a goose that lays a golden egg, where...
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    engineer of uncertain date. Marcus Aemilius Avianus, a friend of Cicero, and the patron of Avianus Evander and Avianus Hammonius. Aemilius Macer, a poet who...
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