{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0614.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0614.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0614.tlg001.local001","title":"Fabulae Aesopeae","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Babrius","authorityName":"Valerius BABRIUS Scr. Fab.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0614-valerius-babrius-scr-fab/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0614-valerius-babrius-scr-fab/","editors":["Friedrich Schneidewin"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"Babrii Fabulae Aesopeae","edition":null,"publisher":"B.G. Teubner","place":"Lipsiae","date":"1865","volume":null,"series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Harvard College Library","sponsors":[],"funders":["Harvard Library Arcadia Fund"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig) 2015 - 2017","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig) 2015 - 2017","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bdget9W_vQgC","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Babrius. Fabulae Aesopeae. ed. Friedrich Schneidewin. Babrii Fabulae Aesopeae, Lipsiae, B.G. Teubner, 1865. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0614.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Γενεὴ ενεὴ δικαίων ἦν τὸ πρῶτον ἀνθρώπων, ὡ Βράγχε τέκνον, ἥν καλοῦσι χρυσείην. ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ τρίτη δʼ ἀπʼ αὐτῶν τις ἐγενήθη χαλκείη, μεθʼ ἥν γενέσθαι φασὶ θείαν ἡρώων. πέμπτη σιδηρᾶ ῥίζα καὶ γένος χεῖρον. ἐπὶ τῆς δὲ χρυσῆς καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν ζῴων φωνὴν ἔναρθρον εἶχε καὶ λόγους ᾔδει· ἀγοραὶ δὲ τούτων ἡσαν ἐν μέσαις ὕλαις. ἐλάλει δὲ πέτρα καὶ τὰ φύλλα τῆς πεύκης, ἐλάλει δὲ πόντος, Βράγχε, νηὶ καὶ ναύτῃ, στρουθοὶ δὲ συνετὰ πρὸς γεωργὸν ὡμίλουν ἐφύετʼ ἐκ γἦς πάντα μηδὲν αἰτούσης, θνητῶν δʼ ὑπῆρχε καὶ θεῶν ἑταιρείη. μάθοις δʼ ἂν οὕτω ταῦτʼ ἔχοντα καὶ γνοίης ἐκ τοῦ σοφοῦ γέροντος ἡμῶν Αἰσώπου μύθους φράσαντος τῆς παλαιτέρας μούσης. ών νῦν ἕκαστον ἵνα θέῃς ἐνὶ μνήμῃ μελισταγές σοι, λῷστε, κηρίον θήσω, πικρῶν ἰάμβων σκληρὰ κῶλα συνθλάσας. Ἄνθρωπος ἦλθεν εἰς ὄρος κυνηγήσων, τόξου βολῆς ἔμπειρος· ἦν δὲ τῶν ζῴων φυγή τε πάντων καὶ φόβου δρόμος πλήρης. λέων δὲ μοῦνος προὐκαλεῖτο θαρσήσας αὐτῷ…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0614.tlg001.local001/#tlg0614-tlg001-local001-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0614.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0614.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0614/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}